How Much Is Eucommia Bark per Jin? Analysis of Yield and Profit per Mu, Producing Areas, and Benefits and Effects

Eucommia, also known as silk chinaberry bark, silk cotton bark, cotton tree bark, and gum tree, is a plant of the family Eucommiaceae. Its dried bark is a precious tonic medicinal material in China.So how much is Eucommia bark per jin? What is the yield and profit per mu? Where are the producing areas? It is understood that dried Eucommia sold in Chinese pharmacies is 27 yuan per jin. Eucommia leaves can also be sold, and they make a very good tea.

What is the yield and profit of Eucommia per mu?

The current market price of Eucommia is 10-15 yuan per jin. Eucommia planted for more than 10 years has a yield of 700 kg per mu, and Eucommia grown for more than 20 years has a yield as high as 1000 kg per mu.

Where are the producing areas of Eucommia?

Eucommia is a species endemic to China and is now widely cultivated in various places, distributed across Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Anhui, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang and other places. Zhangjiajie is the world's largest producing area of wild Eucommia. In the national-level forestry base in Jiangsu, large amounts of Eucommia are cultivated artificially, and it has also been introduced to botanical gardens in Europe and the United States, where it is called the “Chinese rubber tree”, although it has no kinship whatsoever with the rubber tree.

China's “Hometowns of Eucommia”

1. Zhangjiajie: Thanks to the special geographical environment of Zhangjiajie in Hunan, Eucommia survived in the Wuling Mountain range, thus making it the world's largest producing area of wild Eucommia to date. Cili County in Zhangjiajie, as China's largest base of wild Eucommia forest, has long enjoyed the reputation of “the mysterious 30 degrees north latitude, the hometown of Eucommia in China”.

2. Wangcang County: Wangcang County in Sichuan is located in the Qinba mountainous area and has long been known as the “tree-shaded medicine hometown”. Its resources of Chinese medicinal materials are very rich, and in 1984 it was listed as a “county of Chinese medicinal material production base in Sichuan Province”. It was awarded the title of “Hometown of Eucommia, a famous, special and high-quality economic forest of China” by the State Forestry Administration. Its main wild medicinal materials include more than 300 kinds, such as Gastrodia elata, Eucommia, and Phellodendron amurense.

3. Xiangshui County: As early as the 1980s, Qitao Township in Xiangshui County, Jiangsu, was famous both inside and outside the province for cultivating the Chinese medicinal material Eucommia. In the mid-1990s, Qitao Township established the Xiangshui Eucommia Tea Factory. Its “Tingquan brand” bagged health tea won the title of famous brand product of Yancheng City in 1999 and was a product consumers trusted. The Eucommia tea it produces sells well domestically and is exported to Japan, South Korea and other countries. Cultivating the Chinese medicinal material Eucommia has become one of the important ways for farmers in the township to increase their income.

4. Lueyang County: Lueyang County in southern Shaanxi is an original producing area and suitable growing area of Eucommia. It is generally believed that Eucommia originated in the Qinling Mountains at the junction of the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. Because it is located in the Qinba mountainous area and its geographical transportation is underdeveloped, the germplasm resources of many species have been relatively well preserved, and it is also one of China's famous “hometowns of Eucommia”.

Appendix: Benefits and effects of Eucommia

Eucommia has many medicinal effects and functions. Eucommia can relieve constipation and promote urination, has a slimming effect, nourishes yin and tonifies the kidney, lowers blood pressure and reduces fat, and has a cosmetic effect. Eating Eucommia with different foods has different effects: eaten with hawthorn it lowers blood pressure, eaten with Psoralea corylifolia it can treat impotence, and eaten with sheep kidney it can tonify the kidney, strengthen the waist, and astringe essence.