The knack of growing medicinal materials

At present, with the deepening of industrial structure adjustment, an upsurge of medicine has sprung up in rural areas. In the face of the complex and changeable market of traditional Chinese medicine, planting skills are particularly important in order to achieve ideal economic benefits. for farmers, they should not only go deep into the market and collect information from many directions, but also have a sense of risk. be prepared for success and failure. The author believes that if you want to be effective, you must have characteristics and know the tricks.

1. It is easy to take refuge in planting varieties. Many medicine farmers are eager to get rich, and often take high-priced medicinal materials (such as Cordyceps sinensis, saffron, jujube, Gastrodia elata, etc.) as selected items. In fact, these medicinal materials have their own unique growth environment, and it is difficult to grow out of places that do not adapt. And planting techniques are strict, and the probability of successful planting for ordinary people is very small. If you are not a research institution or a large-scale breeding base, but just a personal trial, then you'd better not introduce such a variety, so as not to lose the higher cost. If you are only trying to grow medicinal herbs for the first time, you should choose those varieties that are suitable for local cultivation, have strong vitality, and are easier to grow and manage. Although these medicinal materials are cheap, they are easy to succeed and produce benefits.

2. The planting area should be determined by the force. The size of the planting area must take into account their own manpower, material and financial resources, because the benefits of planting drugs are large, the investment is also large, and it is risky, if you are a multi-person partnership to contract land to grow drugs. If they have sufficient manpower and financial resources, have successful experience or have relevant professional and technical personnel as guidance, then the larger the planting area, the more the number of medicinal materials, the greater the attractiveness to drug factory purchasers or drug vendors, and they can use chauffeured cars to purchase and ship directly to the place of origin, so that they can sell quickly, reduce the cost of promotion, and the income is relatively greater. If you have limited funds, you should start from a small area, sell the products nearby to the medicine purchasing department or professional market, and then expand the planting scale with harvest and planting experience.

3. If you don't follow the "price", you should turn around the "market". Most drug farmers have such a mentality: "grow up but not fall", that is, plant whatever the price goes up, while those with falling prices are unwilling to plant it. However, the price of medicinal materials is not immutable. When the price goes up, everyone goes to plant it, and when it comes to new production, the high price often turns into a low price, resulting in a profit last year and a loss next year. If you can examine the changing trend of the market price of medicinal materials, understand the fluctuation cycle of the price of medicinal materials, and plant those medicinal materials that are rarely planted and whose prices are temporarily on the low side, then you are sure to get an unexpected good harvest.

4. Planting local "special" and "excellent" medicinal materials because of the different natural environment in different places, the quality of the medicinal materials produced is also different, the price is high or low, and the dosage is big or small. Generally speaking, local special products are most easily favored by pharmaceutical factories and drug dealers, with good prices and fast sales, so you should first make clear which are the local special varieties, and then choose to plant them, so that you will not worry about the market and can sell at a good price.

5. Products should be sold at the right time. Generally speaking, drug farmers are eager to find a market after the production of new medicinal materials, worrying that the products will not be sold. In fact, medicinal materials, like their commodities, will lead to a decline in prices when they are on the market in large quantities, and there must be no good price to sell at this time. If you can process the medicinal materials at the beginning of their origin and store them well, they will be sold at the right time when the price goes up, so that you can make more profits.