What medicinal herbs are good to plant in 2018? A variety selection guide
Today I'm bringing you an article about medicinal herb cultivation. In recent years, demand in China's medicinal herb market has been rising year after year, and the prices of various common medicinal herbs and precious Chinese medicines have kept climbing. Those of you who want to grow medicinal herbs but aren't sure what this year's herb market will really be like, or whether you can make money, well, let Shuashuai explain it to you below!
1. Tianma (Gastrodia elata) is a very nourishing and very expensive Chinese medicine. This herb is cultivated in most regions of China; foreign countries don't have tianma and even need to import it from China. Whether used as medicine or eaten as food, tianma is a medicinal herb with high nutritional value, and its purchase price is on the high side. Generally speaking, one kilogram of tianma can sell for 180 yuan, and it is now already very hard to buy wild tianma on the market; wild tianma is usually rather expensive.
2. Jinyinhua (honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica) now has a wide range of applications and production across every aspect of the pharmaceutical world, and the demand for honeysuckle in making cold medicine is very large. Honeysuckle has always been regarded in people's minds as the best remedy for clearing heat and detoxifying, and it is now being used more and more widely in the production of health supplements, as well as in cosmetics and household products. So the prospects for growing honeysuckle are still fairly big, and the price of honeysuckle has never been cheap, so the growing profit is still quite considerable.
3. Jiegeng (balloon flower, Platycodon grandiflorus) is also a fairly common medicinal herb in China; you often see jiegeng in ordinary prescriptions. Jiegeng is not only a medicine, its use in dishes is also becoming more and more widespread. One kilogram of jiegeng can sell for about 20 kuai, and in some areas only a few thousand mu of jiegeng are planted now, so on the market it is certain to be in short supply. That means the business opportunity for jiegeng is also very big; over the past few years the price of jiegeng has risen by about 10 times, which is really frightening.
4. Dihuang (rehmannia, Rehmannia glutinosa), also called shudi, is a medicinal herb in very great demand. Shudi is in great demand not only domestically but is also in short supply abroad, so a market shortage has appeared. Shudi is best planted in the north, and there are now a great many people cultivating it. One mu of land can produce about 2 to 3 tons of dihuang, which after a series of processing and preparation can be made into 1 to 1.5 tons. So the profit income from growing shudi is also quite considerable, and its growing prospects and development potential are fairly big.
The above are the medicinal herbs with relatively good growing prospects and high income in 2018. Shuashuai, after analysing the current state of the medicinal herb market, selected a few representative herbs to explain. If any of you bosses want to get started, you can consider the above four medicinal herbs; their profits are still quite considerable.