Wild Aristolochia cinnabarina price per liang, market trends, and the best planting and harvest years
Aristolochia cinnabarina, a traditional Chinese medicine name. It is the root tuber of the Aristolochiaceae plant Sichuan Aristolochia cinnabarina. It is distributed in Hubei, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and regulating qi to relieve pain. So how much does Aristolochia cinnabarina cost per liang? What is the price trend? How many years of planting before harvest is best?
How much does Aristolochia cinnabarina cost per liang?
Aristolochia cinnabarina is a precious medicinal material, priced at around 50-80 yuan per liang, but the selling prices of Aristolochia cinnabarina of different grades also differ.
How many years of planting before harvest is best for Aristolochia cinnabarina?
It is best to harvest after more than 4 years following transplanting. Dig up the root tubers in June-July, remove the remaining stems and fibrous roots, wash off the sand and mud, steam until thoroughly cooked through (generally 10-25 min), then sun-dry or oven-dry.
2018 Aristolochia cinnabarina price trend analysis
“My family planted three mu of mugwort leaves and two mu of Prunella vulgaris this year. Based on this year's market, three harvests of mugwort from three mu can bring in more than 1500 yuan, and two mu of Prunella vulgaris can bring in about 3000 yuan. It can both make us rich and is easy to manage, much more worthwhile than growing other crops!” On May 14, villager Gao Wenming of Guozhuang Village, Huilong Township, Tongbai County, stood in his mugwort field, counting on his fingers as he did the accounts for the reporter.
At present, farmers in Tongbai County who have become rich by growing traditional Chinese medicinal materials like Gao Wenming number more than 100,000.
Tongbai County is located in the climatic transition zone between the subtropical and north temperate zones, with a mild climate, abundant rainfall and excellent soil. Wild traditional Chinese medicinal materials grow all over the mountains, and the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicinal materials enjoys exceptional environmental and geographical advantages. The medicinal materials produced have strong efficacy, complete functions and long-lasting effects.
In recent years, in order to solve the problems of difficult income growth and slow prosperity for the people in the mountainous areas, the county has taken the development of the green traditional Chinese medicinal materials industry as a strategic development path, striving to build the traditional Chinese medicinal materials industry into a pillar industry of Tongbai County. It has issued preferential policies, supported and encouraged the cultivation and processing of green traditional Chinese medicinal materials, given rewards to traditional Chinese medicinal materials planting bases and provided technical training, guided farmers in standardized under-forest cultivation and scientific management of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and actively promoted the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicinal materials such as Tong Platycodon grandiflorus, Bupleurum chinense, Belamcanda chinensis, Prunella vulgaris, mugwort, honeysuckle and Gardenia jasminoides. It gives priority to supplying improved seeds to poor households, encourages farmers to develop traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and adopts the 6 “unified” model of “unified training, unified seed supply, unified field management, unified processing standards, unified buyback and unified sales”, driving tens of thousands of farming households in more than 190 surrounding villages to grow traditional Chinese medicinal materials. Prunella vulgaris, mugwort leaves, Tong Platycodon grandiflorus, honeysuckle and Belamcanda chinensis have become the “five golden flowers” of Tongbai's pollution-free traditional Chinese medicinal materials. In 2017, the county also added 8 wan mu of new traditional Chinese medicinal materials planting.
Tongbai's traditional Chinese medicinal materials are sold far beyond China to domestic and overseas markets. Tongbai's Prunella vulgaris planting exceeds 3 wan mu, making it an important raw material supply base for domestic herbal tea companies.