Blossoming peonies boost Gansu Linxia's economy

Wangping Village is the only mountainous poor village in Linxia. The village now has planted more than 170 mu of peony and is known as the "the first peony village in Hezhou". About 172 of the village's 252 households were poor families in 2013, but the number was reduced to six at the end of 2017. Now the village has set up an oil peony plantation cooperative. According to villagers' calculations, planting wheat makes little money, but planting peony seedlings, with a single cycle of 5 years, saves labor and can bring farmers over 100,000 yuan per mu.

China, 29/05/2018 (informazione.news - comunicati stampa - turismo)

Wangping Village is the only mountainous poor village in Linxia. The village now has planted more than 170 mu of peony and is known as the "the first peony village in Hezhou". About 172 of the village's 252 households were poor families in 2013, but the number was reduced to six at the end of 2017. Now the village has set up an oil peony plantation cooperative. According to villagers' calculations, planting wheat makes little money, but planting peony seedlings, with a single cycle of 5 years, saves labor and can bring farmers over 100,000 yuan per mu.

He Shenghong, also known as Linxia's "Peony King", is the pioneer of the peony industry in Wangping Village. He not only circulates land for seedling cultivation, but also develops peony tea products and peony alcohol. Peony stamen tea is sold by grams, which can sell at almost 10,000 yuan per 500 grams. The poverty alleviation in the northwest is like rockii peony, which will bloom one day though it blossoms late, He said.

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