Kinta County medicinal materials become medicine "wealth"

In the winter golden tower, the temperature gradually decreases. Walking into the Da Rich Peasant Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Dingxin Town, Jinta County, a rich and fragrant medicinal fragrance came to the nose, some workers were processing medicinal materials, some were bundling and bagging, and some were loading and transporting, a busy scene.

"Winter is the peak season for medicine, and the medicinal materials market has heated up in advance, and our products are mainly sold to pharmaceutical companies such as Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical and Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical, which have a relatively large demand for Banlangen." Yan Zhengqin, head of the cooperative, said that this year's income is better than in previous years.

Compared with traditional crops, Chinese medicinal materials have strong ability to withstand natural disasters, good economic benefits, and save labor, and farmers are more willing to plant. Yan Zhengqin, as the leader of getting rich, actively led the villagers to develop the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials, combined with soil quality, climate and other factors, he finally decided to plant Banlangen. With the improvement of the Chinese herbal medicine market, the cooperative's income from the cultivation and sale of Chinese medicinal materials has also increased. This year, he not only expanded the scale of Banlangen cultivation, but also tried to grow other Chinese medicinal herbs.

In recent years, Dingxin Town, Jinta County, has explored the development path of "company + cooperative + base + farmer" Chinese medicinal materials planting and development path of "binding" cooperatives and leading enterprises by cooperatives, and the planting area of medicinal materials such as cistanche, banlangen, windproof, and banxia has been expanded, and the processing projects of cistanche and suoyang Chinese medicinal materials have been implemented, so that rural industries can embark on the road of green and high-quality development, and let the masses take up "green rice bowls", eat "ecological rice", and puff up "money bags".

In recent years, Jinta County has broadened sales channels through agricultural business docking and agricultural enterprise docking, helping farmers increase income and become rich, and Chinese medicinal materials have become a "good medicine" for local prosperity. Nowadays, the industrial chain of Chinese medicinal materials continues to expand, and it is constantly developing towards specialization, standardization and scale. According to statistics, the county has developed a total of 150,000 mu of Chinese medicinal materials, involving more than 20 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials such as cistanche, windproof, banlangen, banxia, licorice, etc., and gradually formed an industrial cluster integrating product development, display, processing, online and offline sales, and achieved "good medicine selling at good prices".

Correspondent Lu Yu Lanzhou Daily All Media Reporter Gao Huixia Text/Photo

Responsible editor: Wang Xuwei