Taoyuan fairy grass industrial production, seedling on the track brand, access to be built

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Eighty percent of the immortal grass Taiwan needs every year is imported from abroad. Although the cost is relatively low, the quality is not stable. If you want to taste the tea made of immortal grass, frozen immortal grass, or burning immortal grass, you may not be able to find them. However, things have changed since the beginning of this year.

The planting area of immortal grass in the new house in Taoyuan has increased to five hectares this year.

The policy of revitalizing fallow land promoted by the Council of Agriculture to increase the local grain self-sufficiency rate is included in the subsidy for five new crops today, one of which is immortal grass. For every hectare of fallow land converted into immortal grass, there is a subsidy of 25,000 yuan, thus increasing the willingness of local farmers to plant fairy grass.

The Agricultural improvement Farm of the Peach Garden of the Council of Agriculture instructed the farmers of the new houses to put into the production of immortal grass, and commissioned the Zicheng Education Farm in Yangmei to provide immortal grass seedlings. In previous years, the planting area of immortal grass in Taoyuan County was less than one hectare, but this year it has increased to five hectares in one breath.

"although the area is small, at least it is on the road." Jiang Jinlong, head of the agricultural extension course at the Agricultural improvement Farm in Taoyuan District, said that the Taiwan food manufacturer Mingzhong Food Company, which developed in the mainland three years ago, planned to return to Taiwan to set up a planting base for immortal grass in Xinwu, Taoyuan, but the planting area has been unable to be carried out.

According to Jiang Jinlong's analysis, problems such as production technology, seedlings, and farming income are all the reasons why the planting area of fairy grass cannot be improved.

Policy subsidies and deeds from manufacturers increase farmers' willingness to plant fairy grass

Since the beginning of this year, the Council of Agriculture, the Taoyuan County government and private manufacturers have all put forward specific measures to ensure farmers' income. According to the policy of the Council of Agriculture for the revitalization of fallow land, the fallow land can receive a subsidy of 25000 yuan per hectare for planting immortal grass, and the Taoyuan County government also increases the subsidy for seedlings, with a subsidy of 3 yuan for each plant of immortal grass. In addition, Mingzhong Food has signed a contract with farmers in the new house to purchase all the immortal grass produced by farmers at a purchase price of 35 yuan per jin. Jiang Jinlong said: "these three measures have increased farmers' willingness to plant, so the planting area has been increased to five hectares this year."

In terms of production technology, Jiang Jinlong believes that the planting technology of immortal grass is not complicated, and the technical problems can be overcome as long as farmers are willing to try, and compared with ordinary vegetable and fruit crops, immortal grass is less afraid of rain as long as it is planted, which is the advantage of cultivation.

The seedlings needed for five hectares of fairy grass are jointly arranged by the father and son of Zicheng Farm.

From the end of April to the beginning of May, the seedlings of fairy grass in Zicheng Farm handed over 50,000 plants one after another, so that the five hectares of fairy grass planted in the new house could be successfully planted on the road. Shoot / Yang Zhenyu

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