What is industrial towel gourd? How is the planting benefit?

Speaking of towel gourd, you must think of the plates of tender green and delicious dishes on the table, but apart from the table, the use of towel gourd is completely beyond your imagination! Towel gourd is very long and thick, loofah has high density and high hardness, so it is most suitable for the production of insoles, cushions, mattresses and health products. So there is the existence of "industrial towel gourd", so what is the planting benefit of "industrial towel gourd"?

Unlike the traditional edible towel gourd, the industrial towel gourd is long and thick, and the older the loofah is, the more valuable it is. Its loofah is favored by processing enterprises, which is a hope to increase income for growers.

Industrial towel gourd began to be planted in April and harvested from September to November. It can be harvested for three seasons, namely plum gourd, Fu melon and autumn gourd. Plum melon, too small to stay, can be used as an edible melon. Fu melon and autumn melon have a large head and high output value, just to make industrial towel gourd, and there are surplus, broken and abnormal ones in Fu melon and autumn melon can be sold as edible melons.

In short, there are about 10 melons in 3 batches of a vine, only 2 to 4 excellent ones are retained as industrial towel gourd, and the rest can be thinned and sold as edible melons.

Industrial loofah, as long as the technology and fertilizer are well mastered, the yield per mu can reach 80 kg-200 kg. However, if there is more heavy rain, the average yield of growers is only about 60 kg / mu-120 kg / mu. However, even when the weather was not beautiful at that time, if farmers only sold loofah, the output value per mu could generally reach NT $1,000 or NT $2,000. If we develop order agriculture and sell only industrial loofah, the output value per mu can range from NT $1,000 to NT $5,000 to NT $6,000.

The seed cost is 120 yuan / mu-150 yuan / mu, dense planting 200 plants / mu-300 plants / mu, seed cost 200 yuan / mu-300 yuan / mu. This is only the first year of planting so much investment, after the second year, you can choose good seeds to keep seeds, the cost is greatly reduced.

The cost of fertilizer and medicine per mu is about 300 yuan.

In addition, growing industrial towel gourd needs to be set up. General bamboo frame, for 650yuan / mu-1200 yuan / mu, can only be used for two or three years; large-scale, large-scale planting, can use cement piles, steel pipe, steel wire, set up Skynet, the cost is 2300 yuan / mu-3800 yuan / mu, can be used for 8-12 years.