What is the usual yield of honeysuckle per mu? Is it profitable to grow? What are the prospects, costs and profits?

Honeysuckle, also known as Japanese honeysuckle, honeysuckle vine, silver vine, two-color flower vine, erbao vine, right-turning vine, zifeng vine, mandarin duck vine, erhua, is distributed in every province of China. So what is its usual yield per mu? Is it profitable to grow? What are the prospects, costs and profits? According to Master Gao, a honeysuckle grower in Anhui, the yield of woody honeysuckle is generally closely related to the cultivation years and cultivation conditions. If the cultivation area has a suitable environment and is well cultivated, one-year-old seedlings begin to produce flowers in the second year after planting, with a usual yield of about 100 kg per mu, and after reaching full production in three years, the average yield of dried flowers per mu reaches 150-200 kg.

Is it profitable to grow honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle is an excellent product for modern people's health care and for epidemic and disease prevention. It has fairly high nutritional value, and new honeysuckle products are not only selling well in the domestic market, but are also generally welcomed and favored especially in foreign markets. Honeysuckle is a commonly used bulk variety with demand exceeding ten thousand tons. Because there are many production areas and many specifications, the market is mostly specialized, and under normal circumstances prices are mainly stable. But because it is an important medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying, every time an epidemic comes, it can always drive price fluctuations, so among commonly used bulk varieties, honeysuckle is also a relatively active variety.

What are the prospects, costs and profits of growing honeysuckle?

Prospects:

Honeysuckle is one of the traditional bulk Chinese medicinal materials and has many economic uses. As usage increases year by year, many regions have carried out large-scale planting, cultivation techniques have continually improved, comprehensive development and utilization have gradually deepened, and a honeysuckle industry has initially taken shape, playing an important role in adjusting the rural industrial structure and developing the local economy. However, due to the lack of comprehensive planning, a complete and systematic industrial chain has not yet been formed, and there are not many flagship products with market competitiveness, thus limiting the development of honeysuckle production to a certain extent. Comprehensively analyzing the current situation of the honeysuckle industry, identifying existing problems, and further raising its level of industrialization are of great significance for promoting the development of the entire Chinese medicine industry.

Costs:

1. 10% of the total pre-production investment in honeysuckle. If the pre-production investment in growing honeysuckle is 3000 yuan, then 300 yuan should be added to that year's cost.

2. Land rent. Generally 400-600 yuan per mu.

3. Agricultural inputs: pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, etc., generally about 100 yuan per mu.

4. Depreciation of production tools, depreciated at 10% of total production. These tools include: picking tools, fertilizing tools, spraying tools, cultivating tools, weeding tools, irrigation tools, drying tools, transport tools, storage tools, etc.

5. Labor. Including labor for fertilizing, weeding, disease and pest control, picking, drying, storage, etc.

Profits:

Let's do the math based on a yield of 150 kg of dried flowers per mu. 150 kg is roughly 800 kg of fresh flowers. If one person picks 10 kg of fresh flowers, the labor cost is calculated at 100 yuan. 800/10*100=8000 (this is the labor cost). Adding about 2000 yuan in expenses such as medicines, the total is 10,000. And 150 kg of dried honeysuckle flowers can sell for 15,000 yuan, which means the net income per mu is 5000 yuan. In my view, a net profit of 5000 yuan per mu is already quite good.