Harvesting and processing of licorice

Harvesting and processing licorice is generally planted for 1-4 years. Hebei, Beijing planting 1-2 years harvest, Inner Mongolia; Northeast, * planting 3-4 years harvest. At present, there are two cultivation methods, one is direct seeding, the other is raising seedlings in the first year, transplanting in the second year, transplanting horizontally in the ground, easy to harvest. The first method is simpler and less gardener, and the second method is suitable for small family planting and intensive cultivation. Planting in a large area and harvesting is a problem, and manual digging is very difficult. after years of experiments, it is possible to use a 55-type iron cow rubber wheel tractor, the depth of the plow is about 45 cm, each row of ploughing, and then manually use four-toothed Harrow to sort out the licorice root, and then plough the second row, a tractor with 10 manual workers can harvest an area of about 10 mu a day, and the root damage rate is also less than that of manual digging. The residual roots lost in the ground are less than 10%, which meets the requirements and opens up a new way for planting licorice in a large area. After drying the recovered licorice root for a few days, remove the Reed head and tail with manual cutting or guillotine, and cut out licorice strips, which are used for cutting oblique slice exit, and bundled with Reed head, hairy root and tail, used as hairy licorice to extract licorice paste. Licorice growing for two years, the general dry goods of licorice strips are about 250,300kg per mu, and Mao licorice is about 300kg per mu, and the output value per mu can reach about 4000 yuan.