[Explanation] Right now, more than 80,000 mu of Dayun in Qiemo County, southern Xinjiang is ushering in the flowering season. Gorgeous flowers are blooming in the Taklimakan Desert, where the yellow sand is full of fields. The tenacious vitality has added vitality to the vast desert, beautifying it. The desert has enriched the pockets of farmers.

　　The rows of bright flowers shaped like pagodas are Dayun. Dayun is also called Cistanche, known as "desert ginseng". It is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with extremely high medicinal value.

As a parasitic plant, its parasitic Haloxylon has the ability to prevent wind and sand and play an important role in improving the ecological environment.

　　At the windbreak and sand control station in Qiemo County, farmers Tianlaiqun are busy checking the pollination situation of Dayun.

Tian Laiqun said that through previous investment and efforts, nearly 12,000 mu of wind and sand control ecological forests have been planted at Qiemo Wind and Sand Control Station.

Now that the windbreak forest has grown, interplanting Dayun under the forest, and then expanding the planting area of ​​the windbreak through the income obtained by Dayun, not only achieves the purpose of sand prevention and control, but also has economic benefits.

　　[Same period] Dayun planting household Tianlaiqun in Qiemo County, Xinjiang

　　The seeds are growing very well this year. The windbreak and sand control ecological forest is a big industry that requires us to keep exploring and trying.

In previous years, we used natural pollination. In these two years, we used bees to pollinate to increase the pollination rate of Da Yun, improve the quality of its seeds, and carry out the topping work on Da Yun. Our seeds this year are probably expected to be released in June 10th. Harvest around the number.

　　[Explanation] Xinjiang Qiemo County is located in the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert. The desert area accounts for nearly 40% of the county's area. It is a veritable "desert island". In order to fight against the wind and sand, the local government seeks benefits from the desert. Since 2003, Qiemo The county explores the development of desert economy, utilizes abundant desert resources, planting windbreaks and sand-fixing economic forests to inoculate Dayun, organically combining desertification control and economic development, and embarking on an industrial development road with desert characteristics.

　　[Same period] Patiguli Yasen, a sand control worker at the windbreak and sand control station in Qiemo County, Xinjiang

　　At present, the inoculated area of ​​Dayun in our county has reached 83,000 mu, of which the inoculated area of ​​Dayun in the Hedong Sand Control Base has reached 59,000 mu, which has also produced certain economic benefits. In one year, 620 tons of fresh Dayun were harvested in the area of ​​our Hedong Sand Control Base, 2.5 tons of Dayun seeds were harvested, and the output value reached 11.8 million yuan. In 2022, about three tons of Dayun seeds were harvested in our Hedong Sand Control Base, and about 800 tons of fresh Dayun were harvested.

　　[Explanation] It is understood that in addition to inoculating Dayun in the roots of Haloxylon ammodendron, the local government has also actively explored inoculating Cynomorium in windbreaks and sand-fixing forests, and interplanting commercial crops such as Wenguan and Banlangen, achieving a "win-win" of ecological and economic benefits.

　　Zhao Yamin, Liu Yushan, Amanjiang, Alifu, Xinjiang Qiemo County, Xinjiang

Responsible editor: [Lu Yan]