At present, fields of red ginseng are lush and fruitful in the Chinese Herbal Medicine Planting Demonstration Garden in Pingzhai Township, Qiubei County. According to reports, this year, with the in-pair assistance of Hongkou, the base has built a 1,000-mu Chinese Herbal Medicine Planting Demonstration Base including 600-mu Campanumoea Lancifolia, and has initially built the Modern Chinese Medicine Industry Demonstration Park in Pingzhai Township. Now, these Campanumoea Lancifolia have a good harvest. Wang Jinyuan, head of Gelei Planting and Breeding Farmer Professional Cooperative in Qiubei County, said that all this benefited from the strong support of the Party committee and the government and the sincere help of the corresponding areas.
Campanumoea Lancifolia is a kind of medicinal and edible fruit with high content of anthocyanins and dietary fiber. It abounds in mineral elements such as zinc, iron, manganese, potassium, calcium and 17 kinds of amino acids. It has the functions of traditional Chinese medicine such as nourishing spleen and stomach, making breathe easily and increasing blood, stopping bleeding and pain, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and resolving phlegm and relieving cough. In recent years, Gelei Planting and Breeding Farmer Professional Cooperative in Pingzhai Township, Qiubei County has devoted itself to studying the artificial planting methods and techniques of Campanumoea Lancifolia in the planting base. In 2019, through careful cultivation and propagation of seedlings, more than 20 mu of Campanumoea Lancifolia were successfully planted, and a good harvest was achieved. They were sold to all parts of the country through network sales and other channels. In that year, the market price reached RMB120 per kilogram, with an output value of RMB25,000 per mu.
In Chinese Herbal Medicine Planting Demonstration Garden of Pingzhai Township, modern agricultural elements such as sprinkler irrigation, drip irrigation, integrated facilities of water and fertilizer for road where farm machines drive and cold storage are all available, and a new modern agricultural demonstration park has been initially completed. 43 mu of modern agricultural greenhouse in the sun is very eye-catching. According to Wang Jinyuan, the counterpart assistance project invested in building a seedling greenhouse for the cooperative. The standard seedling greenhouse has 43 mu, and the next step is to plant Campanumoea Lancifolia, star anise and other traditional Chinese medicine seedlings.
With the 600 mu of Campanumoea Lancifolia planting base and the 43 mu of modern standard seedling greenhouses put into use, the Hongkou In-pair Assistance Project of Pingzhai Chinese Herbal Medicine Planting Demonstration Garden has been completed in 2020. It is planned to increase the people's income by the ways like land circulation, employment and equity cooperation in the planting industry of Campanumoea Lancifolia. Li Henghui and his wife, villagers of Pingzhai Village, have worked in the base for a long time. Now they can increase their income by working near home. "We take care of the medicine base, and earn more than RMB6,000 per month."