How profitable is Gastrodia elata cultivation? A planting income analysis

Question: How profitable is cultivating Gastrodia elata? Is it guaranteed?

Answer: It can be said with certainty that the production benefit of Gastrodia elata is relatively high. At present, the purchase price of fresh Gastrodia tubers is generally around 40 yuan per kilogram. Calculated at a yield of 10 kilograms per square meter, the output value is about 400 yuan. In the first year of planting, the input cost is about 200 yuan, and the production benefit is about 200 yuan; from the second year onward, using self-produced tuber seeds to expand the cultivation area, about 5 times the cultivation area of the first year, and at the same time using first-generation high-quality fungal strains to self-cultivate fungal wood, that is to say, after the second year there is no need to buy fungal wood and tuber seeds again, and expanded reproduction can be carried out, and the production cost is very low. This is one aspect; furthermore, with the high-yield new technology now used for cultivation, the yield can generally reach about 15 kilograms per square meter, and the highest yield can reach 23 kilograms, so the production benefit will be even higher. Judging from the situation of the past two years, the high benefit of Gastrodia elata production is the main reason that has driven the "Gastrodia elata craze." It can be said that, in the face of continuously declining prices of ordinary grain, cotton, oil crops, fruit, vegetables and tea, in the face of the new economic situation after entry into the WTO, and in the face of persistently sluggish production benefits, quite a few farmer friends are at a loss when facing agricultural structural adjustment. Some people with good access to information have chosen Gastrodia elata production and obtained relatively high benefits. The author believes that, on this basis, if production technology is further improved, some equipment is appropriately purchased, sexual breeding of Gastrodia elata and the production of germination fungi and Armillaria mellea strains are carried out, and at the same time a series of processing is carried out on Gastrodia elata, then the production benefit will rise by leaps and bounds. Among recent inquirers, some people are preparing to carry out work in this area, which shows that some farmer friends have already seen this point clearly.