What crops were most profitable to grow in rural areas in 2017?
Crop farming is the main path to prosperity for the vast rural population. Nowadays, the state has introduced many policies benefiting the people, and in many regions farmers have become wealthy through growing crops. With the development of the times, environmental protection, green living, health and wellness have become the main themes of people's lives. In the future, the crop farming industry will develop toward green products. In fact, there are many projects to choose from in the farming industry. What can make money if planted in 2017? Which are profitable: vegetables, flowers, medicinal herbs or fruit trees? Let's find out together.
What vegetables were most profitable to grow in 2017
1. Colored vegetables
Colored vegetables are so called in comparison with ordinary green mainstream vegetables. For example, tomatoes usually have red skin, while colored varieties are golden yellow; ordinary cabbage is white-green, while colored varieties are light purple. Sweet waxy corn, purple sweet peppers, red cai xin, and some melons and beans with small fruit, novel shapes and unusual colors also fall into this category. Although they are not the mainstream products of today's edible vegetables, they can stimulate consumers' interest in tasting them.
2. Health-care vegetables
People today pay great attention to using dietary therapy for health care and beauty, so health-care vegetables sell particularly well. For example, red lentils and winged beans can help with gastrointestinal digestion, clear heat and remove dampness, and purple sweet potato has effects such as nourishing and strengthening the body and boosting immunity in the elderly. Production of vegetable varieties like these can be appropriately expanded.
According to surveys, there are many wild vegetables that can be eaten, most of which have not yet been developed and utilized. More than 40 species have now been introduced and cultivated, including Houttuynia cordata, Sedum kamtschaticum, Nostoc commune, and purslane, which can be gathered anywhere. Because wild vegetables have a unique flavor and novel taste and can help people increase their appetite, they are very popular with the public.
3. Ornamental vegetables
There are now many holidays, the tourism industry is flourishing, and growing flowers at home is gradually rising. Appropriately stocking a variety of ornamental vegetable varieties can serve as a supplement to landscape garden construction and the flourishing flower industry. For example, the petite and exquisite golden pearl tomato and the winding and graceful snake gourd can all serve as top choices for agritourism.
What flowers were most profitable to grow in 2017
1. Edible cactus potted plants
The edible cactus was only recently introduced into China from Mexico. It is a nutritious healthy vegetable with multiple functions such as medicinal, edible and beauty uses. Planting sections sell for 20 yuan/piece, and vegetable sections sell for 13 yuan/piece, with huge market potential.
2. Aloe potted plants
Aloe potted plants are favored by people for their unique and beautiful appearance, strong reproductive capacity, and multiple functions such as being edible, medicinal and beauty-enhancing. Each aloe potted plant sells for anywhere from a few yuan to dozens of yuan to hundreds of yuan, and they sell very well.
3. Fern potted plants
The fern is a precious Chinese medicinal herb that grows in deep mountains and old forests, never seeing sunlight all year round. Some flower merchants with a keen eye make full use of the dog-hair-like appearance and golden-yellow color of ferns, molding them into the shapes of little dogs, kittens and little lions, giving them the elegant names: golden-haired dog and golden-haired lion, and selling them in flower pots. Because fern potted plants like shade, are simple to manage, and have unique, beautiful and lifelike shapes, and are a new type of flower potted plant that has just entered the market, they are favored by a great many consumers. Each small golden-haired dog treasure sells for 15 yuan/pot, and a large dog treasure sells for 40 yuan/pot.
4. Fruit tree potted plants
When fruit trees are transplanted into flower pots, you can both enjoy the flowers and fruit and eat the fruit. Potted fruit trees include: potted apple, potted pomegranate, potted flowering peach, potted grape, potted cherry, and so on. Flowering peach in particular, with its tightly clustered and vivid petals, can be marketed in large quantities before the Spring Festival. One potted peach tree sells for 15 yuan. One potted root-carved pomegranate sells for more than 1500 yuan.
5. Chinese medicinal herb potted plants
There are many plants suitable for making medicinal herb potted plants, and their sales prospects look good. For example: lingzhi potted plants, ginkgo potted plants, medicinal chrysanthemum potted plants, goji potted plants, etc. Lingzhi potted plants of various shapes sell for as much as over a thousand yuan; each ginkgo potted plant sells for over a hundred yuan when small and over a thousand yuan when large, and even ordinary medicinal chrysanthemum potted plants can sell for at least four or five yuan per pot. Making medicinal herb potted plants yields more than ten times, or even a hundred times, the benefit of growing Chinese medicinal herbs alone, so the development prospects are very broad.
What medicinal herbs were most profitable to grow in 2017
1. Varieties with good trends, stable or rising prices, stable per-mu returns and upgraded ratings, worth growing and developing: Belamcanda chinensis, Platycodon grandiflorus, Pinellia ternata, Arisaema, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Bupleurum, Astragalus, Scutellaria baicalensis, Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica dahurica, Schizonepeta, Ophiopogon, Arctium lappa, chrysanthemum, Glehnia littoralis, Adenophora, Cynanchum paniculatum, Sophora flavescens, safflower, Angelica sinensis, licorice, Polygala, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Paeonia lactiflora, albizia flower, Gentiana, Corydalis bungeana, Asarum, ginseng, American ginseng, Fritillaria species, etc.
2. Varieties with relatively stable price trends that can be developed in appropriate amounts: Codonopsis, Impatiens balsamina seed, Anemarrhena, Chinese yam, honeysuckle, Achyranthes, Korean goji, perilla, dandelion, cockscomb, Scrophularia, Salvia miltiorrhiza, aconite, Isatis root, rhubarb, Dioscorea nipponica, Aucklandia lappa, Coptis chinensis, Trichosanthes, Astragalus complanatus, Agastache rugosa, Polygonatum odoratum, Aster, white mustard seed, Peucedanum praeruptorum, Rehmannia, rose, Physalis alkekengi, Plantago seed, Forsythia, Arnebia, Cleome gynandra seed, Gastrodia, Scutellaria barbata, Viola mandshurica, Poria, Trigonella, pollen, Panax notoginseng, cassia seed, Prunella spike, Bolbostemma paniculatum, Magnolia flower, Eucommia, Cornus officinalis, winter flower, mint, Moutan cortex, etc.
3. Wild medicinal herbs are in tight supply and prices continue to rise; domesticating wild varieties can support long-term development: Saposhnikovia divaricata, Notopterygium, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Atractylodes lancea, Bletilla striata, Dictamnus dasycarpus, Paris polyphylla, Ranunculus ternatus, etc.
4. Market-weak varieties: Vaccaria seed, coix seed, Isatis root, Schisandra. Last year's hot southern variety, Pseudostellaria heterophylla, has already plummeted 78%, the biggest decline, falling from its pedestal. Develop varieties cautiously, such as saffron crocus, which has low yield, and cultivated cordyceps, which the market does not buy. In addition, some varieties such as Panax notoginseng, Coptis chinensis, ginseng, American ginseng, Gastrodia and Fritillaria cirrhosa have high prices, long growth cycles and climate restrictions in their production areas, so getting rich is not easy; please take good care of your capital.
What fruit trees were most profitable to grow in 2017
Fruit trees have relatively high returns among cash crops and are relatively easy to manage, and are welcomed by farmers in some regions. But to truly achieve good results, it still depends specifically on the land and weather conditions of each place. In general, every fruit tree variety has a most suitable growing region, and this is the primary issue. Choosing a variety suited to the local area based on local natural conditions can be said to be half the success. Furthermore, you should base your choice on your local market conditions; generally, ordinary varieties that are already widely grown should no longer be developed.
The above covers what was profitable to grow in 2017, introducing which projects are profitable among vegetables, flowers, medicinal herbs and fruit trees. Of course, there are still many profitable planting projects on the market; the above projects are for reference only.
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