China News Service, Harbin, April 20th Telegram: Practical "Three Steps" "China's Banlangen No. 1 County" The Development Road of Chinese Medicine Industry in Tailai County
Chinanews.com reporter Wang Nina
The planting area of Banlangen ranges from several thousand mu to 110,000 mu, and the output value of Chinese herbal medicines has reached 250 million yuan... Within a few years in Tailai County, Heilongjiang Province, the development momentum of the Chinese herbal medicine industry has been strong, and it has realized the transformation from "the first village of Banlangen in Longjiang". A big leap forward in the development of the Chinese herbal medicine industry in "the first county of Banlangen in China".
Tailai County is a small county seat in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.
In recent years, the local government has found that the county's soil conditions and natural climate are very suitable for growing Chinese herbal medicine after testing by a professional agricultural testing company.
Chinese herbal medicine?
Local farmers have three major concerns: they don’t want to plant, they don’t dare to plant, and they don’t know how to plant.
"Growing corn and soybeans. These have been grown for many years, and they are familiar with each other. I can't figure out how to grow traditional Chinese medicine." Zhao Yuqing, a farmer in the county, said.
Tailai County's Chinese herbal medicine planting base.
Provided by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Heilongjiang Province
In order to allow farmers to grow traditional Chinese medicine with peace of mind, Tailai County has achieved the strong development of traditional Chinese medicine industries such as Banlangen through the three-step strategy of technicians going to the front line to guide planting, looking for scientific research institutions to make "hard products" and extending the industry to help sell.
Can't plant?
The county has cooperated with the Institute of Medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to jointly build the Tailai County Isatis Root Seed Breeding Test Base of the Institute of Medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to provide farmers with improved seeds.
The local government also plays the role of agricultural technicians, not only selecting seeds for medicinal farmers, but also providing them with full technical guidance services in various links such as planting and field management.
These agricultural technicians take a combination of online and offline methods, hold classroom training, field training, and use WeChat groups and public accounts, Kuaishou live broadcasts, TV lectures and other forms to train and guide more than 5,000 people every year, allowing these farmers to change. The traditional planting concept has realized the transformation from "dare to plant, not knowing" to "bold and scientific", so that more medicinal farmers have grown from "outsiders" to "experts" in traditional Chinese medicine planting, basically reaching Every household has "people who know how to grow medicine".
At the same time, the local government has also established professional service organizations such as professional cooperatives and family farms to drive the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines such as Banlangen.
To enter the market, the product has to be hard.
In the past three years, the county has understood that "it has to be hard on its own", and has continuously cooperated with colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, and pharmaceutical companies to improve the quality of local isatis root. Today, the output of isatis root meets the needs of general pharmaceutical factories and the internal control standards of pharmaceutical factories. It has attracted many well-known pharmaceutical companies from all over the country to purchase the raw materials of Banlangen here.
Once the planting has been established and the quality of the industry is hard enough, selling it is the key link.
In order to solve the problem of sales of Chinese medicinal materials, the local government extended the industrial chain of Radix Isatidis from the agricultural field to the production field, and they introduced large Chinese medicinal material enterprises from all over the country.
In 2020, the county introduced the production and processing and Chinese herbal medicine trading center project of a large-scale Chinese herbal medicine enterprise in Harbin. The total investment of the project is 150 million yuan, and the output value can reach 80 million yuan after the first phase is put into production.
After that, the county introduced a Chinese herbal medicine company and established a modern Chinese medicine intelligent distribution center and a health food production and processing project. The planned total investment is 100 million yuan. After reaching the production capacity, 15,000 decoctions can be prepared annually and 20 health products can be produced. 10,000 tons, processing 500,000 tons of agricultural and sideline products.
Last year, more than 1,800 farmers in the county planted Chinese herbal medicines. Among them, the average yield of Banlangen per mu was about 200 kilograms, and the market price was about 12 yuan per kilogram, which was about 500 yuan per mu more than the benefit of planting corn. The purse" became more bulging.
More importantly, the county has achieved the leap-forward development of the Chinese herbal medicine industry from "Longjiang Banlangen First Village" to "China Banlangen First County" through a down-to-earth "three-step" approach.
For now, the county continues to explore new models.
In December 2020, the local area began to promote the shared base model, selecting a farmer with years of experience in planting Isatis root and a strong sense of service as the president of the shared base in the village, and selecting 3 senior farmers as technicians to provide technical guidance to the farmers through the shared base.
At present, this shared base model has established a "six unification" model of "unified sourcing, unified planting technical specifications, unified harvesting, unified processing, unified storage, and unified traceability", which solves the problem of "single-handed" for pharmaceutical farmers to resist market risks. Problems such as poor capacity, cluttered varieties, and low-priced sales, and through cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, the competitiveness of the market has been improved, allowing the development of the Chinese herbal medicine industry here to have more space, and the future can be expected. (End)