Chongqing Duping Hexi villagers grow traditional Chinese medicine and embark on the road to prosperity.

Recently, the reporter visited a number of Chinese herbal medicine farmers in Hexi Village, Duping Township, and listened to them talk about their "medicine classics."

Before and after Frosts Descent, Radix scrophulariae entered the harvest period.

In the deep mountains of Hexi Village, the fragrance of medicine runs through the year's work of the people in the mountains. Plant, harvest, sell. Here, you can see the figure of the people in the field who are busy collecting traditional Chinese medicine.

On the 26th, the overlapping mountains covered by the sun were warm. The car kept walking along the mountain path and arrived at the planting base of traditional Chinese medicine in Hexi Village at noon. The total area of traditional Chinese medicine planted in Hexi Village is 2000 mu, including Achyranthes bidentata, Radix Achyranthis, Radix scrophulariae and other Chinese herbal medicines. Under their good care, the harvest of Achyranthes bidentata is now in sight.

"da, da, da." Guo Yincai, a grower of traditional Chinese medicine, is a middle-aged man in his 40s. He constantly shuttles through the fields, crawling in a sea of yellow electricity bills, picking seeds of Achyranthes bidentata. After that, I saw him bow up, roll up his trousers, go to the ground, cut Platycodon grandiflorum, and dig Achyranthes bidentata with a hoe.

He followed Achyranthes bidentata, which had just been dug up from the ground and spread flat on the ground, yellow as bright as gold.

These days, Guo Yincai runs to the ground every now and then to check the growth of other Chinese herbal medicines, which are the source of his annual income. And Radix scrophulariae and solitary living can also be excavated in a large area. Today, Achyranthes bidentata has basically been harvested.

The quality of alpine traditional Chinese medicine is superior, and the farmers show their own skills.

Duping Township Hexi Village, located at the junction of Chongqing and Hubei on the south bank of Wushan Gorge in the heart of the three Gorges, is rich in traditional Chinese medicine with a wide variety and superior quality at an altitude of more than 1300 meters. The sun, soil, fog, altitude and other conditions here are very suitable for the growth of traditional Chinese medicine.

Sowing, pulling grass, fertilizing, harvesting. Guo Yincai has been in the ground all day since the beginning of last year. " Taking care of these traditional Chinese medicines is more careful than taking care of their own children in the past, "says Guo Yincai's wife.

These medicine farmers are not only keen on the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine, but also creative.

Not only do they grow traditional Chinese medicine, they also spontaneously breed goats, using the traditional Chinese medicine Platycodon grandiflorum as fodder for goats in the winter. " Last year, I watched these Chinese medicine Platycodon grandiflorum idle, thinking that these Platycodon grandiflorum could be fed to the sheep, so I cut these Platycodon grandiflorum into sections and dried them. In winter, I used these Platycodon grandiflorum as fodder to feed the sheep, and I usually went to the mountains to feed the sheep. Based on this idea, I raised 20 lambs. It is estimated that 12 goats can be fenced in the second half of this year, which can be increased by about 15000 yuan, plus 10 mu of achyranthes bidentata can earn 40, 000 yuan. " Guo Yincai confessed.

Guo Yincai is just a microcosm of medicine farmers in Hexi village. There are more than 80 drug farmers like him in the village.

Sign the order, the medicine farmers are full of confidence in growing traditional Chinese medicine.

It is understood that if Achyranthes bidentata is planted in Hexi Village this year, it can harvest 1 ton of fresh goods per mu, 1.80 yuan per jin, and the output value per mu is about 4000 yuan. Achyranthes bidentata alone can increase production by more than 2 million yuan for the whole village.

Hexi Village relies on Shennu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., the company will build a perfect traditional Chinese medicine industry chain platform to achieve one-stop service in the production, processing and sales of traditional Chinese medicine. By adopting the method of "company + base + peasant household", the technical regulations of seedling cultivation and fertilization, planting mode, cultivation management and harvesting methods were formulated according to the requirements, and large-scale planting and standardized production were basically realized. The company provides free seedlings and technical guidance to farmers, provides one-stop services from site selection, transplanting, field management and herbal medicine harvesting, and signs orders with medicine farmers, thus promoting the continuous expansion of the planting scale of traditional Chinese medicine in Hexi village. planting varieties continue to increase, and the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine is promoted in depth.

Guo Yincai said, "although Hexi Village is not suitable for growing flue-cured tobacco, through the signing of purchase contracts and orders for production, it is guaranteed to purchase all Chinese herbal medicines at a relatively good price, ensuring the benefit of our people." We will follow the requirements of the technical staff of the company and the Committee of Agriculture, and we will listen to them what they ask us to plant and how large the planting area is, so that our high mountain areas can quickly shake off poverty and become rich. "