More than 30,000 poor people in Nanyang, Henan Province have been lifted out of poverty because of ＂Ai＂
The picture shows that workers are processing mugwort in a mugwort processing poverty alleviation workshop in Tongbai County. source map
A common "weed" has turned into a "golden grass" to get rid of poverty and become rich, in the hometown of medical saints — — Nanyang, Henan, is nothing new. This very common "wild grass" growing all over the mountains is called wormwood.
According to statistics, the planting area of wormwood in Nanyang City exceeds 240,000 mu, and four wormwood industrial parks have been built, with 1,529 registered enterprises and annual sales of 8 billion yuan. It has become the largest wormwood processing base and wormwood leaf distribution center in China, with a national market share of 70%. It has driven more than 100,000 farmers to benefit from planting, harvesting, processing and sales, including more than 31,000 poor people. The whole wormwood industry has shown a vigorous vitality and has become one of the excellent projects for poverty alleviation and development in local rural areas.
Wormwood turns into a "golden leaf"
In the eyes of many agricultural technicians and growers, wormwood with its own green ecological "attribute" is the "best partner" to develop poverty alleviation industries. The planting area of wormwood is large and farmers are enthusiastic about planting. To this end, Nanyang City has also established the Ai Industry Association and introduced measures to encourage the development of the Ai industry. According to the principles of farmers’ voluntariness, interest linkage and mutual benefit, all localities have guided the establishment of professional cooperatives and cooperative associations of Ai Cao to cultivate large-scale Ai Cao growers, and "Ai Nong" has embarked on the road to prosperity because of the "Ai Xiang".
"The national wormwood looks at Wanai, and Wanai is best counted as Tongbai." Yin Zhehua, a poor household in Xiongzhai Village, Maoji Town, Tongbai County, talked about wormwood. Yin Zhehua not only planted wormwood, but also used his spare time to work in a nearby wormwood processing factory. It can be said that it was with "Ai" wealth that he ran towards a well-off society. "My husband died early, and there are two children at home. In the past few years, the days have been tight, and it is common to go to the construction site to do heavy work. Since I built the wormwood precision poverty alleviation employment base at my doorstep, I no longer go to the construction site to work. Now I grow wormwood myself and go to the factory to process moxa sticks. My work is much easier and I earn a lot of money in one month. " Yin Zhehua said happily.
Nanyang is rich in traditional Chinese medicine culture. In Zhang Zhongjing’s Treatise on Febrile Diseases, there are 6 prescriptions using wormwood, and in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, there are more than 20 prescriptions using wormwood. Every Dragon Boat Festival, sachets fluttering in the streets and lanes are living advertisements of wormwood products. With the improvement of people’s living standards, the demand for health is more and more urgent. As a pure natural product, wormwood is favored, and wormwood industry has become the most distinctive sunrise industry and the most dynamic industry to enrich the people in Nanyang.
Today, the planting area of Dengzhou and Tongbai under the jurisdiction of Nanyang City has reached more than 40,000 mu, and the planting areas of Tanghe, Sheqi, Nanzhao, Wolong and Wancheng are all over 10,000 mu. In Nanyang, like Yin Zhehua, more and more poor households have found a way to get rich by planting and processing wormwood.
The data shows that at present, there are more than 160 varieties of wormwood products developed in Nanyang City, which are exported to 56 countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" with an output value of more than 20 billion yuan. Since 2017, two consecutive national wormwood industry conferences have been held in Nanyang.
Lengthening the industrial chain of enriching the people
In Xinzhuang Village, Tongzhaipu Town, tanghe county, the sign of "wormwood industry poverty alleviation base" is particularly eye-catching. This is the 3000-mu high-quality wormwood planting base of Nanyang Daai Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd.. "We adopt ‘ Company+cooperative+poor households ’ The model provides poor households with one-stop services such as planting and technology, and signs a recycling agreement, which has achieved remarkable results in promoting local economic development and increasing farmers’ income. " The person in charge of the company introduced.
Planting "Ai" will increase income, and "Ai" will lift you out of poverty. "I participated in the whole process from planting and weeding to harvesting, drying and leaf stalk separation in the later stage. I didn’t expect that this wormwood can bring me more than 1,000 yuan a month. Really exciting! " Speaking of wormwood, Yu-fu Li, a poor household who works in Nanyang Daai Ecological Agriculture Company, smiles.
In the Ai products processing workshop of Jintiandi Agricultural Excellent Products Cooperative in Hongniwan Town, Wancheng District, the express boxes piled up in mountains attracted the attention of reporters. "Many shops in Taobao and JD.COM buy goods from us!" The person in charge of the cooperative proudly said, "The store sends the buyer’s information after receiving the order. I send the goods directly to all parts of the country in the factory, and the store has zero inventory, which also shortens the logistics chain, which is a win-win situation!"
In recent years, with the expansion of market demand, the purchase price of wormwood has increased year by year, and farmers have begun to plant high-quality wormwood. The wormwood industry featuring wormwood processing and moxibustion medical care has shown an increasingly prosperous momentum. According to the statistics of Nanyang wormwood Industry Association, at present, the average annual benefit of wormwood per mu can reach 3000 yuan, and the economic income of local farmers has been greatly improved by planting wormwood.
Taking wormwood as the starting point, participating in the "precise poverty alleviation" project to help poor households get rid of poverty and increase their income is just a microcosm of the rapid development of wormwood industry in Nanyang City. According to reports, Nanyang City is actively cultivating and expanding the wormwood industry, processing value-added, lengthening the chain, registering the "Wanai" trademark, and launching the brand, so that the wormwood industry can play the maximum benefit in industrial poverty alleviation.
Policy escort and steady income increase
Wormwood is a unique and rich resource of traditional Chinese medicine in China, and it is also a healthy tourism resource with great potential. In recent years, Nanyang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have made the development of wormwood industry as the key content of the city’s big health industry, and successively issued Nanyang Life and Health Industry Action Plan (2015-2020), Nanyang 13th Five-Year Plan for Chinese Medicine Development, Zhang Zhongjing’s Major Special Implementation Plan for Health City, and Nanyang National Comprehensive Reform Experimental Zone Construction Implementation Plan and related supporting measures to build wormwood industrial park and vigorously support it.
Located in Qiaotou Town, Sheqi County, the wormwood planted by Nanyang Luying wormwood Biological Products Co., Ltd. is growing vigorously. The production and processing enterprises of mugwort products, led by Luying mugwort biological products company, have discovered the characteristics of high cashmere content and high volatile oil content of authentic mugwort in Nanyang, and developed nearly 100 kinds of products, such as traditional mugwort, smokeless mugwort, mugwort, mugwort granules, mugwort essential oil series and mini moxibustion series. The products are exported to dozens of countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and Europe, with an annual output value of several hundred million yuan.
In today’s society, people’s use of wormwood is no longer limited to copying traditional Chinese herbal medicine culture, but researchers are constantly breaking through and studying its new value. With Nanyang Medical College’s "Nanyang Ai Products Engineering Technology Research Center" and Nanyang Institute of Technology’s "Zhang Zhongjing Provincial Key Laboratory of Prescription and Immunoregulation" as research platforms, through school-enterprise cooperation, a research and development team of wormwood industry was established to continuously promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Located between Dafengying Town and Qiaotou Town in Sheqi County, Nanyang Zhongjing wormwood Industry Group covers wormwood planting, wormwood product research and development, domestic and foreign trade, etc. The company has more than ten subsidiaries, and its China Medical Zhongjing Company is the largest wormwood planting enterprise in China, which has driven more than 1,500 neighbors to find jobs, created economic benefits and constantly fulfilled its social responsibilities.
Wormwood has been fragrant for thousands of years, and its industry is flourishing today. Nowadays, Nanyang wormwood industry is taking the road of green development and ecological poverty alleviation with unprecedented vigorous momentum, and is striving to write a glorious chapter of building a well-off society in an all-round way in the southwestern part of Henan. (He Jian reporter Zhang Peiqi Fan Yaxu)