Chinese herbal medicine makes farmers in Machang village earn millions

In recent years, shuobei Township, Datong County, while expanding and strengthening pillar industries such as pollution-free vegetable planting and tourism service, optimizes the industrial structure and actively explores characteristic industries such as Chinese herbal medicine planting This year, through the planting of Chinese herbal medicine, the net income of farmers in Machang village, shuobei township has reached 1.8 million yuan This year, shuobei Township, through various measures, vigorously supports the artificial cultivation of Chinese and Tibetan medicinal materials In Machang village, it guides farmers to plant 450 mu of angelica, with an average yield of 700 kg to 1000 kg per mu At this time, when the Chinese and Tibetan medicinal materials are fully listed, the market price of Angelica is more than twice the price of last year The sales price is calculated at 10 yuan per kg, with an income of 70-100 million yuan per mu and a net income of 400 yuan per mu 0-7000 yuan, by comparison: this year, the income of Angelica farmers is 5.2 times higher than that of wheat farmers; 4 times higher than that of rape; 3.3 times higher than that of potato farmers The total income of the whole village is 3.15 million yuan, and the net income is 1.8 million yuan The planting of traditional Chinese medicine not only makes the land transfer reasonably, but also promotes the labor economy of the village Some left behind women and old people also go into the fields to hoe, pick up medicine and dry medicine, and work for the farmers, which not only promotes the income of the farmers in the village, but also solves the employment of the surplus labor force in the countryside, and realizes the "double harvest" of economic and social benefits.