China News Service, Yongzhou, April 24th (Jiang Junjun) Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Bitter Vegetable, Crystal Vegetables ... These wild vegetables are common in Shenshanli, Yao Township, Menlouxia, Xintian County, Hunan Province. .
Li Jingfang, a Yao fellow in Yao Township under the gate, led the villagers to dig wild vegetables, process, and sell them through the establishment of Zhen Wild Vegetable Development Cooperative, and launched these wild vegetables into the mountains, which led many Yao people to increase their income and become rich. Li Jingfang, who has tasted the sweetness, now has to transplant the "baby pimples" on these mountains to the ground for artificial planting.
Now is the season of spring tillage. In the past few days, Li Jingfang has organized more than a dozen villagers to seize the season and plant gynostemma pentaphylla in the rare wild vegetable planting base in Qitouling Village, Yao Township, Menlouxia. Some people have punched holes, some have seedlings, and some are planted. In another two months, the planted Gynostemma pentaphyllum can be harvested and sold throughout the country.
The rare wild vegetable planting base in Yao Township under the gate. Photograph by Jiang Junjun
Under the gate of the mountain, the Yao village is densely forested with abundant rainfall, fertile soil, long-term cloudiness, and a large temperature difference between day and night. It is suitable for the growth of wild vegetables such as Gynostemma pentaphyllum, bracken, bamboo shoots, crystal vegetables, bitter cabbage, and pure natural wild vegetable resources. Extremely rich.
After Li Jingfang, a "post-80s" foreign worker, returned to his hometown and started his own business, with the help of Zhao Ronghui, his father-in-law who was engaged in the acquisition of wild vegetables, he established the Zhen Wild Vegetable Development Cooperative to process and sell wild vegetables. With the support of China Everbright Group and the relevant departments in the county, Li Jingfang's processing plant was completed and put into production, and developed more than ten kinds of Yaoxiang specialty products mainly based on wild vegetables.
It is reported that Li Jingfang acquired the mountain vegetables picked by the Yao people and signed a protection price purchase agreement with the poor households, which has driven many Yao people around to increase their income. In 2019, the cooperative realized a total sales of 2 million yuan and a surplus of 400,000 yuan, making it one of the major industrial poverty alleviation bases in the Yao village of Menlouxia.
These wild vegetables have the characteristics of nourishment, deliciousness and pollution-free. The market demand for them is increasing, and the market prospects are promising. With the continuous expansion of the market, simply relying on the villagers to pick wild vegetables up the mountain can no longer meet the demand, Li Jingfang began to try artificial planting.
"Vegetables have a strong adaptability to the environment and climate, and have strong resistance to diseases and insects. In order to ensure its natural and green pollution-free, we do not use pesticides and chemical fertilizers." Li Jingfang said, Gynostemma is known as "Southern Ginseng", It has high medicinal health care value and is more and more loved by people.
Li Jingfang is picking artificially grown bitter males. Photograph by Jiang Junjun
"These Gynostemma pentaphyllums that are being planted are all wild Gynostemma pentaphyllum cut from the mountain, which is planted by cuttings. The artificial planting can be refined management, and the harvesting method has been changed from the past extensive cutting of vines, but the tenderness of Gynostemma pentaphyllum is selected. Buds and rattan whiskers are picked so that high-end Gynostemma pentaphyllum tea products can be processed and produced, greatly increasing the added value of the products. "Li Jingfang said.
At present, this nearly 100 acres of wild vegetable planting base mainly cultivates wild vegetables and tea plants such as bitter cabbage, gynostemma pentaphyllum, cockscomb flower, grits, etc. By artificially planting rare wild vegetable series, not only the product output but also the product quality are increased. Laid the foundation for creating high-end products of Zhen Wild Vegetables.
At present, the cooperative has developed more than ten kinds of rare wild vegetable series products, including high-end products such as rattan tea and long-strand gynostemma pentaphyllum blue tea, which are exported to high-end markets such as Guangdong and Shanghai, with promising market sales prospects. At the same time, it has also driven more than 100 people in the surrounding areas to achieve employment at their doorsteps, becoming the main local poverty alleviation industry and becoming a "cash tree" for villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich. (Finish)