Shengshi Baicao Industry Poverty Alleviation Deeds Published in China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine

 

Chinese herbal medicines are widely planted in poor areas of China, and the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines is one of the important sources of income for the rural poor in China. Establish a poverty alleviation model and mechanism for the Chinese herbal medicine industry with the core of improving quality and promoting income and poverty alleviation,It is not only a good prescription for the whole society to fight against poverty, but also reflects the return of the value of traditional Chinese medicine, and at the same time promotes the overall quality of traditional Chinese medicine products, and the only way for the sustainable and healthy development of the whole industry.

Shengshi Baicao Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Vigorously promote the poverty alleviation of the Chinese medicinal material industry. At present, medicinal material bases have been established in 21 poverty-stricken districts and counties in 6 provinces across the country, including Jingyu County, Jilin Province. As of the end of 2018, the remaining area of each medicinal material base is nearly 20000 mu, and the cumulative economic benefits over the years have exceeded 100 million yuan., Driving the income of nearly 2000 poor households to increase, with an average annual income of 20000 yuan per household, and an average income of more than 30000 yuan.

 

The original transcript reads as follows:

Sheng Shi Baicao: Building a "Ginseng" Road for Poverty Alleviation

 

Jingyu County of Baishan City is one of the national poverty-stricken counties in Jilin Province. Here is rich in natural resources, natural conditions suitable for the growth of ginseng and other Chinese herbal medicines. In recent years, with the maturity of ginseng cultivation techniques, ginseng cultivation has become an important source of income for farmers.

In 2008, Shengshi Baicao entered Jingyu County. In the past 10 years, through standardized and large-scale construction of medicinal material planting bases, it has provided a large number of jobs and employment opportunities for the local area, helped individual farmers to continue and expand the cultivation and production of medicinal materials, and united medicinal material producing companies and cooperatives. In various forms, explore the establishment of a long-term mechanism, cultivate self-hematopoiesis ability, and open up a way for poor farmers to get rid of poverty in the development in the development of ginseng and other medicinal materials.

 

Shengshi Baicao Jingyu County Ginseng Cultivation Base

 

Organize the training of pollution-free cultivation techniques of Chinese herbal medicines

 

Build a scale base and provide suitable jobs

Ai Liantian, a native of Yanping Village, Sandaohu Town, Jingyu County, is now the head of Shengshi Baicao Yanping Ginseng Planting Base, responsible for the daily management of nearly 500 mu of ginseng base, earning several thousand yuan per month. Ten years ago, he was an ordinary farmer with a monthly income of only 700 or 800 yuan, which is the living expenses of the family, and the economy is very tight.

In 2008, Baishan Lincun Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Shengshi Baicao, invested in the construction of standardized ginseng planting bases in Jingyu County and other places in combination with its own development strategy and customer needs, systematically implemented a quality traceability management system, and advocated pollution-free ginseng planting. Due to the need to increase manpower for the construction and management of the base, the company sends out a sincere invitation to farmers who do not want to participate independently, and can arrange suitable positions to work in the base. Ailiantian, who suffered from "fighting alone", resolutely joined the enterprise team.

In sandaohe town alone, there are more than 10 people who have become the managers of ginseng planting base like ailiantian. There are nearly 100 employees in Shengshi Baicao Ginseng Planting Base in Jingyu County, and more than 80% of them are local farmers. By working for the base, they have mastered the relevant technology of standardizing ginseng planting, and everyone has a stable and considerable income.

Help cooperative farmers to reduce risks and increase income.

Compared with ordinary crops, ginseng cultivation has the characteristics of high investment and high risk. In the past, ginseng cultivation often took yield as the core demand. In order to improve the survival rate and increase the volume and weight, various pesticides and chemical fertilizers were often used in large quantities. However, these operations will bring about problems such as excessive pesticide residues and insufficient saponin content, resulting in a decline in ginseng quality and affecting market sales.

In response to these problems, Shengshi Baicao actively contacted the participating farmers to carry out cooperative planting to help them improve the level of ginseng planting. By investing in seeds and seedlings, uniformly equipping pesticides and fertilizers, and purchasing production tools and materials, the company provides one-stop protection for individual participants with low risk resistance. The company undertakes almost all the upfront investment, regularly dispatches technicians to guide during ginseng growth, requires farmers to use the prescribed pesticides and fertilizers uniformly, and records management forms such as agricultural operation logs.

During the ginseng harvest season, the company will purchase the ginseng at a price higher than the market price of the unified goods, and all the surplus will be returned to farmers except for the pre-specified recovery yield.

Join forces to promote stability and poverty alleviation

Shengshi Baicao has established cooperative relations with many Chinese herbal medicine producing companies in the county to jointly carry out base management.In view of the production needs of pharmaceutical farmers, we should pay attention to exchange and training, transmit urgent and practical cultivation techniques and management methods at the first time, and solve the problems encountered in the production of pharmaceutical farmers at the first time. In particular, adhering to the concept of "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish", to help medicine farmers master advanced Chinese herbal medicine cultivation and production technology, and enhance their self-hematopoiesis ability in poor areas.

In recent years, the awareness of forest resources protection in the whole society has been enhanced, and the previous model of forest planting ginseng will gradually withdraw from the historical stage. As farmland is not suitable for artificial cultivation of ginseng, once the forest land resources are lacking, it means that local farmers may face the loss of the environment for planting ginseng, and the good days of poverty alleviation and income increase will never return.

In response to policy adjustments, in order to complete the smooth transition of the development of land resources of ginseng medicinal materials and help ginseng farmers find a new way out, Shengshi Baicao, the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and Tsumura Pharmaceuticals of Japan jointly carried out scientific research on farmland ginseng cultivation. From 2014 to 2018, the subject research team has continuously made 13 technological breakthroughs, seven regulations and standard documents have been formulated, including the selection standard, pollution-free planting technology and standard operating procedures, and the "Ginseng Germplasm Research and Breeding Center" has been established to carry out scientific research and exploration and practice on the cultivation and continuous cropping of pollution-free ginseng in farmland.

Finding a suitable "buyer" and achieving commodity value is a key link in the process of poverty alleviation in the Chinese herbal medicine industry. In the management practice of traditional Chinese medicine products, Shengshi Baicao summed up five methods to satisfy the upstream and downstream of the industry and to make grass-roots farmers get more benefits:

One is the annual order. Medical institutions, pharmaceutical enterprises and other users make an estimate of the purchase volume, and each base will match the planting plan according to the annual consumption, which can have a slight margin to ensure the sustainability of supply and marketing. The second is the fixed ratio distribution. Reasonably allocate the interests of medical institutions, pharmaceutical enterprises and farmers to ensure the basic income of farmers. According to the basic input and output, plus reasonable fixed income, determine the purchase price to ensure that farmers have a stable income. The procurement of medicinal materials adopts the principle of high quality and high price, strictly regulates management, improves product quality, high quality and high price, more work, and stimulates farmers' enthusiasm for optimizing planting; fifth, scale income. By contacting more users to participate in order purchases, economies of scale are formed, costs are reduced and efficiency is increased, so that farmers can get more benefits.

Follow the poverty alleviation policy closely and radiate more poor households.

In recent years, in order to "get rid of poverty and take off the hat" as soon as possible, the Baishan Municipal Government has vigorously promoted the strategy of "retreating grain and entering special", accelerated the adjustment of the traditional agricultural planting structure, and accelerated the development of agricultural economy, that is, gradually reducing the planting area of food crops, vigorously developing characteristic agriculture, and helping The majority of farmers increase their income.

Shengshi Baicao followed the policy closely, and according to the actual situation of Jingyu County, applied to the Mengjiang Township Government, calling on local farmers to promote the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials such as perilla and angelica, and develop medicine characteristic agriculture. This move has been supported and welcomed by relevant government departments and people. Since 2015, the local promotion of angelica planting 1000 mu, perilla planting 500 mu. Hundreds of households have an average annual income increase of 20000 yuan.

Since 2012, Shengshi Baicao has vigorously developed northern medicine planting bases such as ginseng, Schisandra chinensis and Asarum in Jingyu County, Baishan City, Jilin Province, a national poverty-stricken county. The base has driven more than 800 local residents with an average annual income of 50000 yuan.

In addition, Shengshi Baicao combines its own business needs, responds to local poverty alleviation policies, and vigorously develops the advantages of the Chinese medicinal material industry in poverty alleviation. Since 2012, it has been in 21 in 6 provinces including Jingyu County in Jilin Province, Xihe County in Gansu Province, and Qingshui County. A poverty-stricken district has established a base for pollution-free medicinal materials such as ginseng, Schisandra, and Pinellia. By the end of 2018, the retained area of each base was nearly 20000 mu, and the accumulated economic benefits over the years have exceeded 100 million yuan, driving the income of nearly 2000 poor households to increase, with an average annual income of 20000 yuan per household and an average annual income of more than 30000 yuan.