What other values of betel nut have not been fully explored?

The development of betel nut industry in Hainan is of great mining value. At present, the betel nut industry in Hainan is mainly planted, and the processing of betel nut products and some derivatives of betel nut is entrusted to enterprises in other provinces and cities. Therefore, if Hainan can form a complete industrial chain of "planting-processing-logistics", it will greatly increase the local economic development.

Hainan, with its mild climate, abundant sunshine and rainfall, is an excellent place for planting betel nuts. Thanks to this, the betel nut produced by it has outstanding advantages in appearance, softness and fiber fineness, and the selenium content is much higher than that of the original fruit in other places. So people love to chew betel nut, and many enterprises will choose Hainan betel nut for processing. The processed betel nut product is definitely more profitable than the original betel nut. Therefore, Hainan should increase the comprehensive utilization and deep processing research and development of betel nut to create higher value.

In fact, the betel nut processing industry in Hainan is gradually growing. According to news reports, starting from 20 13, Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture began to implement the green transformation project of betel nut drying, and recommended a number of environmentally friendly, advanced, reasonably priced and well-equipped products to betel nut processing households to drive farmers to transform from the source. 20 17 Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture set up demonstration bases of energy-saving and environmental-friendly betel nut baking technology and equipment in Ding 'an, Wanning, Qionghai and other major producing areas in Hainan, popularized and applied environmental-friendly technologies and equipment, and guided the large-scale and clustered development of betel nut processing industry. Moreover, in order to drive more farmers to participate in the environmental protection transformation of betel nut primary processing and not to increase the pressure on farmers, the Hainan government has also formulated specific subsidies, incentives and preferential policies to lead farmers to transform together.

From single planting to processing to sales logistics, it is not an easy change, and it needs a lot of human, material and financial support, but the direction is good and necessary. We look forward to a better development of betel nut industry in Hainan.