Yunnan Anning: edible roses become "getting rich"

"these flowers are sold to the professional cooperative of edible roses and become an important raw material for making fresh flower cakes." Ma Weilong, a villager of the ironworks Village Committee of the eighth Street Office in Anning City, Yunnan Province, said that according to the agreement with the cooperative, farmers grow and pick roses independently, which are uniformly purchased by the cooperative.

In May, large tracts of edible roses bloomed in the mountain fields of the eighth Street in Anning City. It is understood that the peaceful rose variety is a unique "Dianhong double" edible red rose, which has the characteristics of strong growth potential, long flowering period, colorful flowers, strong aroma, good processing quality and so on. In recent years, edible roses have become a new characteristic industry for local farmers to increase their income and become rich. fresh flower products are in short supply and have good development prospects.

Bajie Street is 36 kilometers away from Anning City, between 1900 meters and 2400 meters above sea level, and the annual average temperature is 14.8 ℃. It is an ideal place for planting pollution-free edible roses. The roses planted in Bajie Rose Valley are of good quality in the national edible rose planting base.

In recent years, roses are becoming a "getting rich flower" for local villagers, and great changes have taken place in the lives of every household. When the reporter saw Ma Weilong, he was busy picking flowers in the rose garden with a basket on his back. Over the past few days, like Ma Weilong, local villagers are busy picking and selling flowers.

Ma Weilong said that the family has planted 4 mu of edible roses and has picked more than 300 kilograms of roses this year, earning more than 3000 yuan.

Ma Weilong is a typical representative of getting rich by planting roses. He began to plant roses ten years ago, and the benefit has been good. He can earn about 30,000 yuan a year by planting roses. Ma Weilong said, "now the house has been built mainly by planting roses."

Flower sorting, stuffing processing, transportation and packaging. The workshop of Anning Rose Valley Food Co., Ltd. is also a busy scene. Zhao Guangtu, head of the company, said that recently, as a professional cooperative for eating roses, an average of about 10 tons of flowers have been purchased from farmers every day. "this is the busiest season. Rose cakes are very popular in Beijing, Shanghai and other places. Our daily output exceeds demand."

Roses not only have "good appearance", but also have high nutritional value and medicinal value. Flowers become food, roses become "rich flowers", and Yunnan's peaceful "beauty industry" is getting bigger and bigger.

In the 1950s, Bajie villagers sporadically planted edible roses, and individual farmers set up small workshops to brew rose wine and be self-sufficient. Since the reform and opening up, under the call of the local government and driven by enterprises, villagers in various villages have joined the ranks of rose planting one after another.

Wang Hua, secretary of the Party work Committee of Bajie Street, said that Bajie has explored the industrial development model of "company (cooperative) + base + peasant household" and developed more than 10 kinds of characteristic products, such as rose candy, flower cake, rose sauce, and so on, which sell well at home and abroad. Eight streets already have 21 professional cooperatives for eating roses. Last year, the planting area of edible roses in Bajie was 8900 mu, with a total output of 3868.41 tons and an output value of 38.68 million yuan.

"of course, Bajie edible roses also suffer from unsalable pain in the process of production and development." Wang Hua analyzed that due to the rapid expansion of planting area and the lack of processing capacity of local enterprises, a complete industrial chain has not yet been formed.

In order to promote the development of edible rose industry, the eight streets take the construction of beautiful villages as the guide, make full use of the local long history and culture, food culture, combined with the original ecological natural scenery, green ecological sightseeing agriculture, to create a new brand of "rural eco-cultural tourism".

"it is necessary to turn the eight streets edible roses into a beautiful business card in Yunnan." Wang Hua said, "the next step will be to formulate standards for the production of edible roses, improve the whole industry chain, and drive more villagers to rely on planting roses to be well-off."