Are Tianshan yacon grown in Yingde City, Guangdong Province?

Yacon, also known as ground ginseng fruit, is native to the Andes Mountains of South America and belongs to the genus Helianthus of the Asteraceae family. Abroad, it is called Yagong (YACDN), which means divine fruit. It looks like a sweet potato, but it is from a different family and genus from the sweet potato. Its upper part looks like a sunflower or Jerusalem artichoke, and it can grow 1-2 meters high (the temperature and soil quality vary from place to place). When mature, five beautiful and delicate sunflowers bloom on the top of the plant. The fruits produced in the lower part are like sweet potatoes, weighing 2-8 kilograms per plant, and the maximum product per plant is more than 10 kilograms. Yacon is extremely resistant to storage and can be stored at room temperature until May, still as fresh and tender as ever. Yacon is a magical health-care plant that can be eaten as a fruit or vegetable and has medicinal value. The flesh is crystal clear, crispy and juicy, sweet and refreshing, and you won’t get tired of eating it. Yacon contains no starch and no hot sugar. The fruit contains the highest content of fructooligosaccharides (oligosaccharides) among all plants. It is a fruit-oligosaccharide and low-calorie health food, especially suitable for diabetics and obese patients. The Bifidobacterium proliferation factor (also called Bifidobacterium factor) contained in yacon can clean the gastrointestinal tract, eliminate toxins, increase the body's insulin production, and prevent and resist the formation and development of various cancer cells. It can also clear the liver and detoxify, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, beautify the skin, nourish yin and strengthen yang, and has certain therapeutic and preventive effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, digestive system diseases, etc. Yacon contains more than 20 essential amino acids and rich minerals, and is also high in more than a dozen trace elements. In recent years, research on the medicinal and health-care functions of yacon and the extraction and processing of medicinal ingredients have begun at home and abroad.

Yacon is a trinity of medicine, fruit and vegetable. As a fruit, it can be eaten raw after being washed and peeled. It is as crisp as a pear and as sweet as an apple. It can be used for cooking, cold salad, stir-fry, stew, soup, and hot pot ingredients. All of them are delicious and refreshing. They are very popular in major hotels in large and medium-sized cities. Yacon can also be squeezed into juice to prepare a variety of beverages, and the pulp can be used as an ingredient in various pastries and mooncakes. It can also be used to make dried fruit slices, which are also favored by the market. Its leaves can be made into tea and have the same medicinal value as yacon. The stems can be used to make high-quality feed, and their nutritional value is unmatched by other plants. Because the whole body of yacon has high nutritional value and economic value. Therefore, the current sales price in domestic and foreign markets is climbing well. The domestic price is 6-10 yuan/kg. During the New Year and Spring Festival, the highest price is 50-60 yuan/kg. The general price in the international market is 20-30 yuan/kg, with the highest price being 25 yuan/kg. US dollars (217 yuan), and demand exceeds supply. Nowadays, most domestically produced yacon is basically exported, so it is rarely seen in the domestic market, because the efficiency in the international market is obviously much higher than that in the domestic market, and the demand is growing, such as the import volume of the United States, Japan, Singapore and other countries. significantly increased.

Planting yacon is relatively simple and highly adaptable. In our country, sweet potatoes, potatoes, sunflowers, radishes, and watermelons can be grown anywhere. In recent years, the pilot planting performance across the country has been good, the area is constantly expanding, and the economic benefits are significant. Yacon has very few pests and diseases, making it a non-stop plant. Pollution-free green food is generally grown without the use of pesticides and fertilizers. Planting time: spring sowing before the end of April, summer sowing before June 20th for seedlings and transplanting, and harvest in October. There are about 1,500 plants planted per mu, and the yield per mu is 6,000-8,000 kilograms. The yield per mu of high-yielding plots exceeds 10,000 kilograms, with a maximum of 1,400 kilograms. If the market price is more than one yuan per kilogram, the output value per mu can reach 8,000-10,000 yuan. When the market is good, Below, the yield per mu is about 20,000 yuan. Plus the seed income benefits are even more impressive. It can be seen that yacon is worthy of being a new health treasure fruit and a good project for growing wealth.

Therefore, you can certainly grow it in your home, Yingde City, Guangdong Province. As for the cultivation technology, no one can explain it to you in just a few words. You should not consult here. You should go to a professional department. To learn, you must be systematic. Anyway, Tianshan yacon has a strong adaptability and the planting technology is not very complicated, so learning should not be very difficult.

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