What is the market prospect of licorice cultivation?

According to experts in traditional Chinese medicine, 9 out of 10 prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine contain licorice. Without licorice, there would be no traditional Chinese medicine. However, recently, relevant scientists have once again issued a warning that licorice in China is endangered. People in the industry believe that if licorice can be produced and harvested in a standardized way, and artificial cultivation can be reasonably developed, there should be great market prospects.

Licorice in China is mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and other places. Over the years, due to indiscriminate mining, not only serious damage to vegetation resources, resulting in a large number of soil desertification, the area of wild licorice in the country is also declining sharply. Relevant experts predict that according to the current mining rate, it will be very difficult to find a living wild licorice in the land of our country in five years.

According to relevant statistics, China's current annual domestic demand is about 60,000 to 70,000 tons, and exports continue to grow. In terms of price, the market purchase price of licorice is 7 yuan to 8 yuan per kilogram, and the retail price is more than 10 yuan per kilogram. The cost for farmers to plant a mu of land is about 600 yuan. If the annual output of 1000 kilograms per mu of land is calculated, farmers' annual income of one mu of land can reach more than 1000 yuan, and the prospect is promising. At present, the urgent problem to be solved is to control the indiscriminate mining of wild licorice as soon as possible.

Environmental protection and economic development are a pair of contradictions in China's economic life, economic development must also pay attention to environmental protection, environmental protection is also inseparable from economic development, without the environmental protection of economic development, it is equally difficult to sustain. At present, there is a great demand for licorice products in domestic and foreign markets. experts believe that in order to solve the contradiction between the export of licorice products and China's environmental protection, the most important thing is to develop artificial cultivation of licorice.

From the history of the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry in China, a large number of traditional Chinese medicine must be planted artificially, that is, artificial varieties must be used instead of wild varieties. Artificial cultivation of licorice in China has been explored for a long time, returning farmland to forest, returning farmland to grass, artificial cultivation of licorice can not take the recommended way of reclamation. From the actual situation of the development of artificial cultivation of licorice at present, it is more feasible to promote the coordination of planting and fence culture, as well as the reasonable development of base construction. In addition, the development of planting areas should also transition from desertification areas with relatively weak ecological vegetation to agricultural areas with relatively solid ecological vegetation.

At present, 80% of licorice on the market is wild and only 20% is artificially grown. In fact, licorice is not a difficult plant to grow, as long as the soil and water are suitable, it can be planted on a large scale. Some people think that the key to solving the problem of artificial cultivation of licorice is not the problem of funds or land, but to improve the quality of artificially planted licorice and ensure the replacement of artificially planted varieties of licorice. This needs to increase investment in scientific research, from the selection of varieties, seed collection, reasonable application of water and fertilizer, mining years, internal quality and appearance and other aspects of in-depth research, to find a suitable solution.

At present, our government has issued the notice on banning the trade of Nostoc flagelliforme and the random mining of licorice and ephedra, and has brought the mining and processing of licorice into the state management. Therefore, the market prospect of artificial planting licorice in China is promising.