Wanzai Longya lily powder becomes rich and blossoms.

Wanzai County, Jiangxi Province, known as "the hometown of lilies", is one of the three major producing areas of lilies in the country. In early summer every year, when you walk into the countryside for ten thousand years, you can see patches of lilies blooming everywhere, with delicate petals and graceful posture, just like graceful fairies dancing in the fields and swaying with the wind.

As a treasure of flowers, lilies are the preferred token to express good wishes. Wanzai Longya lily is not only for viewing, but also a green and safe nutritious food.

In early autumn, the fresh lilies dug up by growers from the ground are large and solid, with color like white jade, meat slices like dragon teeth, and bulbs embracing each other, so they have the laudatory name of dragon tooth lilies.

Since the Song Dynasty, Wanzai Longya lily powder has become a tribute to the court. According to "Wanzai County Chronicles" records, "Longya lily powder, crystal bright and clean, and taste plump, circulation big port, handed down as a miracle."

Nutritional analysis shows that Wanzai Longya lily is rich in protein, fat, starch and a variety of alkaloids, which is the most suitable for processing into powder. After Wanzai Longya lily powder is cooked in boiling water, it is crystal clear and delicious.

In order to enhance the added value of Longya lily, since the 1990s, Wanzai County has set up Lily Health Food Co., Ltd., and successfully developed a series of "Longya brand" lily powder products. Subsequently, more than 10 leading lily processing enterprises have emerged in the county, developing more than 40 varieties in 8 series, such as lily milk, lily dew, lily wine, lily cake, lily noodles and so on. Wanzai Longya Lily brand is getting louder and louder, and has successively obtained green food A-grade product certificate, organic food certificate, national geographical indication certification trademark and so on. At present, Wanzai Longya lily powder has been sold in Europe, the United States, Japan and Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.

Farmer Zou Baosheng is busy processing lily powder in Guyuan Village, Gaocheng Town, Wanzai County on August 26. He took the lead in establishing the Luquan Farmers' specialized Cooperative. This year, he planted more than 120 mu of lilies and harvested more than 720 tons of fresh lilies, with a total output value of more than 2.5 million yuan. More than 50 farmers joining the cooperative can increase their income by more than 20,000 yuan on average.

In the processing plant, Zou Baosheng calculated an account for the author: lilies belong to the overwintering crops planted in the first year and harvested the next year; after harvesting lilies, they can also plant a crop of rice for two nights. Due to the sufficient fertilizer and good soil moisture in the fields where lilies are planted, the yield of rice in the second night is about 20% higher than that in the fields without rotation lilies. Therefore, the rotation of lilies in paddy fields "gets twice the result with half the effort". Moreover, the income of planting lily is more than 10 times that of rice. Farmers invest about 7000 yuan per mu of lily, the output is about 18000 yuan, and the net income can reach 10, 000 yuan.

In recent years, Wanzai County has introduced the concept of organic agriculture into Longya lily industry. Since 2010, the government has subsidized 600 yuan per mu for Longya lily planting base. At the same time, the county also won a number of projects such as Longya lily seed breeding and Longya lily industrialization base, so that the lily embarked on the road of industrialization development. This year, the planting area of Longya lily in Wanzai County has been expanded to more than 10,000 mu, with an output of more than 6000 tons and a comprehensive output value of more than 200 million yuan, making it a "rich flower" for local farmers to shake off poverty and move towards a well-off society.

Tips

How to eat: take a certain amount of lily powder each time, first mix well with a small amount of warm water or cold boiled water, then pour into boiling water (above 90 degrees) and stir until transparent paste, then add fresh honey or sugar and so on.

How to get there: from Nanchang City, drive to Wanzai County via S38 Changli Expressway or National Highway G320, about 170 kilometers; or get off at Yichun Station of Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, and then take a bus, which is about 30 minutes away.