Chongqing Farmers' Chinese Medicinal Products Intercropping Maize Double Income Increase

Explore the potential <br> <br> peace group is a high mountainous area is sparsely populated, with an average altitude of 1150 meters, the annual average temperature of 16 ℃, light a long time, mostly sandy loam soil, suitable for the growth of Chinese herbal medicines; last year, Zhou Lun expensive planted 5 mu of Chinese herbal medicine, he intensive cultivation, diligent in management, one year down to 15,000 yuan net income, but he did not meet, always feel there is potential to be excavated.

How to find more money on limited land? The old Zhou, who has a high school education level, believes that efforts must be made in scientific cultivation. To this end, he carefully inspected the books on rural practical technology and consulted the township agricultural technicians. He concluded that the local climate and soil conditions are very suitable for "food and medicine intercropping."

“High-stalked plants such as corn are fond of heat and light, and most Chinese herbal medicines grow best in semi-yin and half-yang environments; implementing cropping practices not only reduces farmer's investment in cultivation and soil preparation, but also greatly reduces the production costs of fertilizers and pesticides. This will not only increase the yield of Chinese herbal medicines, but also stabilize grain production, and it will serve two purposes.” Lao Zhou said with joy that his planting area of ​​Chinese herbal medicines has been expanded to 10 mu this year, and all of them have been made into corn.

Scientific and rational <br> <br> Zhou Lun expensive to author describes how local conditions intercropping.

Select fertilization: Choose fertile loose soil and moist soil, with sandy loam as good. Combine the ground, 1 mu Shi mature farmers 200 kg, 30 kg of DAP. All the fine and smooth flats are made of 畦, 1 meter wide, 15 centimeters high, and 30 to 40 centimeters of the course.

Seeding and Transplanting: Herbs such as Peucedanum sinensis, Aster, Perilla, Golden buckwheat, and Lily are first-year-old herbaceous plants. All of them are seed-breeding except for gold buckwheat. The artificial cultivation uses seedlings and transplanting. The advantage is that the seedlings are neat and tidy. Fast growth and high economic efficiency. Nursery can be carried out from mid-January to mid-February. Drilling and sowing, spacing 23-33 cm, broadcast 4 lines per pole. It is generally transplanted in mid-April. Row spacing 20 cm, spacing 15 cm, Mu seedlings 3-40 000.

Planting corn: Choose high-yield corn varieties that are disease-resistant, lodging-resistant, and live-stalked. Sowing in mid-April, each line of corn on each side of a row, 40 cm spacing, 2000-2200 acres of seedlings Mu, if things are ridged, you can plant a row of corn in the south of Anhui, two plants per hole.

Management and harvest: Field management is mainly to control weeds and pests and diseases. Fertilizers need to be topped every growing season. The buds of Chinese herbs were removed in time to grow the root system.

The effect is obvious <br> <br> It is understood that, in order to eliminate the worries of the majority Yaonong, Nanbin town government actively guide, take the "company + base + farmers" mode of production, but also reached an agreement with some Chinese herbal medicine company, to maximize avoid The farmers' risk,

“We are at a higher elevation here. The harvest season will be later. Corn will be harvested in early September. Chinese herbal medicines will be excavated after October. The current growth is good. There is no problem with the high yield of thiophene. It is really corn's top-of-the-day sunshine.” Undercover 'good for the cold.' Old Zhou made a jingle with satisfaction.

Talking about the economic benefits of interplanting 10 mu of land this year, Lao Zhou preached that, apart from costs, the net profit per mu for Chinese medicinal materials and corn would be 3,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan, respectively, and a net income of 50,000 yuan would be realized throughout the year.

"Although we do more farm work than in previous years, we have more than 2000 yuan per mu, which is worth it." He smiled happily.

Driven by Zhou Lungui's demonstration, this year's "grain, medicine and interplanting" area reached 318 mu, and the profit is expected to reach 1.59 million yuan, thus accelerating the pace of getting local villagers to become rich.