CCTV News:Wuzhai County, Shanxi Province is a national key county for poverty alleviation and development. In recent years, the local government has made great efforts to develop the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines by making use of the abundant wild Chinese herbal medicine resources and the unique geographical advantages of Chinese herbal medicine cultivation, and made efforts to turn "small herbs" into a "big industry" for local people to increase their income and get rich.
These days coincided with the best season for planting Chinese herbal medicines, and Chinese herbal medicine growers in Wuzhai County came to the field early to get busy. In recent years, through the development of Chinese herbal medicine cultivation, the benefits generated by the land have increased day by day, and many young people who go out to work have returned to the village to start developing Chinese herbal medicine cultivation.
Cheng Pengqiang, a Chinese herbal medicine grower in Xiaohuhui Village, Huhui Township, Wuzhai County:In recent years, my hometown has been engaged in planting Chinese herbal medicines. I have three or four acres of land to keep up with and also plant Chinese herbal medicines. When I am young and relaxed, I earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
Farmers’ enthusiasm for planting Chinese herbal medicines has increased. Relying on the favorable conditions of counterpart assistance in state administration of traditional chinese medicine, the local authorities have introduced large-scale planting enterprises and cooperatives, supported leading enterprises and cooperatives of Chinese herbal medicines to become bigger and stronger, and vigorously developed large-scale centralized contiguous planting of Chinese herbal medicines.
Liu Zhicheng, county magistrate of Wuzhai County:With the help of state administration of traditional chinese medicine’s advantages, we will focus on improving the quality and efficiency of the industry and vigorously develop the authentic Chinese herbal medicine industry.
At present, Wuzhai County has developed 10 Chinese herbal medicine planting and production enterprises and professional cooperatives, with 11 large-scale planting households, and more than 6,000 people in the county are engaged in the production of Chinese herbal medicines; The net income per mu of Chinese herbal medicine planting reached more than 1800 yuan, and the industrial benefits of Chinese herbal medicine were prominent.
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