Reporter Ma Junling, correspondent Chen Qianxu, Teng Jinghao.
On December 31, 2023, walking into the Qunfang Planting Family Farm founded by Li Jiawei, a "post-90s" returned college student in Shenshui Township, Zhengyang County, rows of prunella covered with plastic mulch grew healthily in the warm film, full of greenery and vitality. Not far away, Li Jiawei's father led people to seal the area around the film and make a "cold-proof quilt" for Prunella vulgaris.
In recent years, my family has planted prunella grass every year, planting it is particularly trouble-free, the seeds are scattered, waiting for the harvest, and the yield is high, the efficiency is good, each mu can be sold for two or three thousand yuan, and there is no delay in planting other crops, and it is more expensive than planting wheat and peanuts!Watching the young Prunella seedlings grow rapidly in a warm small environment, Li Jiawei's father said happily that if he wants to make a fortune at home, he still has to engage in characteristic planting, especially the large-scale planting of Chinese medicinal materials.
According to Li Jiawei, Prunella vulgaris was exposed to when he was a university student in Zhengzhou City, and after graduation, he learned that the seniors had successfully started a business in their hometown in Queshan County after graduation by planting and processing Prunella vulgaris on a large scale, and he also went to visit the site. Therefore, with the help of professors of his alma mater and seniors of Queshan County, Li Jiawei created a family farm, successively transferred hundreds of acres of land, purchased high-quality varieties, mulch films, and green agricultural materials, and successfully planted hundreds of acres of Prunella vulgaris in Luhe Township, Shenshui Township and other places in the county, taking the "first step" of Prunella vulgaris planting and entrepreneurship as he wished.
Prunella vulgaris is a famous traditional Chinese medicine, also known as the cow head, included in the medical monograph "Compendium of Materia Medica", after ripening for the dry fruit ears, the taste is pungent, bitter, cold, has the effect of redness, swelling and pain, headache, but also clears the liver and diarrhea, lowers blood pressure, disperses knots and reduces swelling, headache and dizziness, etc., it can be seen in many heat-clearing and detoxification Chinese patent medicines. Many people also like to use it to make tea and soup. As more consumers pay more and more attention to health, the Chinese herbal medicine industry has great development prospects, and it is necessary to make it bigger and stronger, and strive to improve the added value of products.
In Li Jiawei's view, planting Prunella vulgaris in a large area in his hometown is only "the first step in the long march", the next step, after he is ready, register a trademark, apply for a brand, create a workshop, purchase a production line, introduce production technology, research and development, processing and sales of Chinese herbal medicine products with Prunella vulgaris as raw materials, so that more people can buy and taste high-quality Chinese herbal medicine products produced in Zhengyang County, so that bags of hot-selling Prunella vulgaris products can grow a "good recipe for getting rich" for the majority of villagers, and sing the "song of getting rich" for industrial revitalization. (Edited by Li Zongwen).