[Poverty alleviation story] Anti-malaria "magic medicine" becomes Guangxi's "good prescription" for poverty alleviation

　　[Explanation] The hot summer is the harvest season of A. annua. At the Artemisia annua plantation base in Matian Village, Siding Town, Rong'an County, Liuzhou City, a remote mountainous area in Guangxi, the weeds that were once visible at the beginning and end of the village have turned into an anti-malaria "magic medicine" and a "good prescription" for local villagers to cure poverty.

　　[Explanation] In Matian Village, Siding Town, Rong'an County, Tan Fuchu, a registered cardholder, was rushing to catch the season and was busy harvesting Artemisia annua in the field. A gratifying harvest scene. 42-year-old Tan Fuchu became poor due to illness and left behind in the village to live by farming. He grows a few acres of corn and rice, and has little income throughout the year. Because the technical difficulty of planting A. annua is relatively low, it is especially suitable for people like Tan Fuchu who cannot do heavy work. In 2019, Tan Fuchu successfully achieved poverty alleviation by planting Artemisia annua.

　　[Concurrent] Qin Fuchu, a registered cardholder in Matian Village, Siding Town, Rong'an County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi

　　I'm sick now and can't go (part-time work). I planted Artemisia annua at home. I planted 6 mu, which is more than 2,000 catties, and the income is more than 9,000 yuan.

　　[Explanation] In Rong'an County, where rocky desertification is more serious, many barren hillsides are not suitable for crop cultivation, but suitable for the growth of Artemisia annua.

　　In 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, and his antimalarial drug artemisinin is widely known. Artemisia annua, which is required to make artemisinin, has entered people's field of vision. Beginning in 2016, Rong'an County included the Artemisia annua industry in the county's industrial precision poverty alleviation project, encouraging farmers to vigorously develop the Artemisia annua industry.

　　[Explanation] Encouraged by the policy, Tan Fuchu changed 6 acres of land to plant Artemisia annua. The income per mu is nearly 1,500 yuan (RMB, the same below), which is 4 to 5 times more than the income from growing corn and rice. Artemisia annua is not only Tan Fuchu’s “good recipe” for poverty alleviation. In Matian Village, a permanent population of 1,846, most of the villagers who stay in the village are "silver-haired people" over 55 years old. Planting Artemisia annua, which is relatively simple and labor-saving, has become an inconvenience. Sources of income for migrant workers. The planting of Artemisia annua has spurred 68% of the poor households in the village to get rid of poverty and increase their incomes, allowing this originally impoverished village to successfully alleviate poverty in 2019.

　　[Concurrent] Qin Shifu, Party Secretary, Matian Village, Siding Town, Rong'an County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi

　　(Artemisia annua) is easier than other crops. In the past, growing corn was an income of 300 to 400 yuan per mu, and planting annua, according to the market price, was 4 yuan to 4 yuan2. Now it is about 400 jin per mu. The income is about 1600-1800 yuan. Now (Matian Village) has been lifted out of poverty. In order to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, we will continue to promote (Artemisia annua) to strive for us to live a better life on the basis of poverty alleviation.

　　[Explanation] In order to continue to give full play to the rich power of the Artemisia annua industry, Rong'an County has adopted the model of "company + scientific research unit + cooperative + farmer" to vigorously develop the Artemisia annua industry and promote the establishment of the Artemisia annua industry in Rong'an.

　　[Concurrent] Qin Xianglou, Deputy Director of the Administrative Department of an Artemisinin Production Company in Rong'an County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi

　　First, we provide free seed sources, second, insured recovery, and third, free technical guidance.

　　[Explanation] Nowadays in Rong'an, Artemisia annua is not only grown as a herbal medicine, it has also increased the land utilization rate in Rong'an County, has played an important role in the control of rocky desertification in Dashi Mountain, and has also enabled farmers in poor areas to realize " The function of "blood-making" promotes the economic development of mountainous areas, and drives farmers in poverty-stricken areas out of poverty and increase their income.

　　Wang Yizhao, Wei Rongjun, Jiang Yangyang, Liuzhou, Guangxi

Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】