Charm and crisis 03 "is it feasible for wild horses to rely on wild collection, tree-cutting and artificial seedling cultivation?"

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Mixed with the special aroma of ginger, lemon and citronella, Magaoshan pepper fruit, which is a traditional ingredient of indigenous peoples, has become a trend in recent years. Even Michelin restaurants are used to serve dishes, which has great market potential. However, mountain pepper depends on wild collection, must go up the mountain to find, break branches, and then peel mountain pepper from the branches one by one, so it is expensive.

During the production period from June to August every year, farmers will drive their wealth carts around the mountains to look for the shadow of the horse. In order to prevent others from getting there first, many people cut down the horse notice before the fruit is ripe and "win first", which not only lacks the flavor of the fruit, but also affects the health of the plant. The horse notice tree must leave a certain amount of fruit and branches in order to be conducive to the growth of the coming year. Some people even cut off the trunk directly for convenience, resulting in the death of horseback trees and reducing the number of wild horseshoes year by year.

Feng Yongfu, the stationmaster of the Wufeng workstation of the agricultural improvement farm in Taoyuan District, is active in developing artificial seedlings, but he is faced with difficulties in technical transformation. Feng Yongfu sighs: "for many people, they can be picked in the wild. This is a business without capital. There is no need to spend any more money to cultivate horse news." He revealed that although there were five technical transfer cases in the agricultural reform farm, only Hualien Mizuho had actual commercial cultivation and sale.

Zhou Zhiguo, chairman of the Wulai Taiya Agricultural Special products production Cooperative, received tutoring on the change of the peach market, and Ma Maoshu has blossomed and borne fruit one after another. (photography / Liu Yixin)

Taipei Gong Agricultural production and Marketing Foundation: Ma Liu is still a long way from commercial cultivation.

Wang Mingyao, a deputy technician at the Taipei City Agricultural production and Marketing Foundation, says frankly, "it takes time for wild plants to be domesticated into cash crops, and since the environment in each region is different, a large number of planting horses still need to be overcome." Even if Wulai has changed the game with Tao, it still seems to have taken the first step in success, but Wang believes that mass cultivation involves many aspects, and the whole SOP still needs to be established slowly.

"at present, farmers still do not have quantitative production, and sometimes raising seedlings is not successful, or the success rate is less than half. In the end, less than 50% of the seedlings can be raised." Wang pointed out that if the seed treatment procedure is not paid attention to, it will affect the results of seedling formation in the later stage. "if there is no problem in transplanting seedlings raised from the improved farm, but farmers still need to overcome the problem of raising seedlings with their own seeds."

Wang says that the general collection usually cuts off the whole branch. "if you pick it once, you will cut it once, of course, there will be fewer and fewer horse complaints," so he hopes to move towards the economic cultivation model. But most farmers are not aware of the plight of the disappearance of horse claims in the future. "the main reason is that there is not a lot of demand in the market at present." However, Ma Gao has been proved to have a number of medical effects, the market potential is great, and demand will follow. "before a large number of products are developed, we should prepare in advance to move towards cash crops." (end of series)

Series of readings:

Three articles in the series of charm and crisis

Charisma and crisis 02 "how to distinguish between true and false?" Black pepper mixed with horse notice, the quality and price are chaotic.