The total annual output value of seedling industry breaks through the 5 billion yuan mark.

According to statistics, by May 2018, the construction area of seedling industrial base in Yiliang County has reached 160000 mu, and more than 160 native tree species have been successfully cultivated. Native tree species seedling base area accounts for 70% of the seedling industry base area in Yiliang County, mainly distributed in Kuangyuan, Nanyang Street Office, North Ancient City, and Dog Street four townships.

The main cultivated tree species: Yunnan cherry blossom, winter cherry blossom, heather, cedar, Yunnan run nan, Yunnan camphor, rib fruit tea, yellow lotus wood, fragrant wood, etc.; the introduced nursery stock industrial base area accounts for 30% of the seedling industrial base area of Yiliang county, mainly introduced tree species: thousand-layer gold, Aozhou flame, kapok, old sunflower, sea jujube and so on. The number of households engaged in the seedling industry has reached more than 4500, including 6 over 1000 mu, 16 over 500mu, 33 over 300mu, 506 over 100mu, and the rest are retail investors. There are more than 65000 employees in the seedling industry, with a total annual output value of more than 5 billion yuan in 2017.