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The origin of Jinghe Lycium barbarum
Jinghe County, Xinjiang is the hometown of Lycium barbarum in China, with a planting history of more than 40 years. Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once praised Lycium barbarum as a health tribute with the poem "Green is planted in Maotang, Xue Ji, and a piece of Lycium barbarum rises in the morning". In recent years, the high-yield and high-quality Lycium barbarum cultivated in Jinghe County on the basis of the original seed has been recognized as authentic Lycium barbarum by all parts of the country because of its large and full grain, thin skin and thick flesh, ruddy and sweet taste, rich nutrition and high medicinal value, and has been sold to major domestic medicinal materials markets, and even merchants from Korea, Japan, the United States, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and other places have kept in touch with Jinghe Lycium barbarum market in advance to place orders. At present, there are five township farms in the county with Lycium barbarum planting bases, covering an area of 10.73 million mu, and only Tori Township 15 farming and pastoral village has planted more than 70,000 mu of Lycium barbarum. With the continuous renewal of Lycium barbarum varieties, the Lycium barbarum market in Jinghe County has accelerated the realization of the ambition that the Lycium barbarum industry should take off on the basis of the broad peasant economy. The total output value of Lycium barbarum exceeds 400 million yuan, which makes the county far away from the throne of Lycium barbarum industry in Xinjiang and become the world-famous hometown of Lycium barbarum.