What is the growth habit of pueraria lobata? Which areas are not suitable for planting?

There are not many ingredients that can be compared with ginseng, but there are many people who care about it, such as "North Ginseng and South Sanqi" and "North Ginseng and South Pueraria".

Pueraria lobata is also called "Asian ginseng".

It seems that pueraria lobata is a kind of food comparable to ginseng. Pueraria lobata, also known as "Asian ginseng", has improved a lot at once. But as far as I know, pueraria lobata, known as "Asian ginseng", is mostly wild, and farmers rarely grow it professionally. Why?

Pueraria lobata is an edible and medicinal material.

Let's talk about this pueraria lobata, which is the same as ginseng. It is the root of wild pueraria lobata in Leguminosae and contains flavonoids such as daidzein. It is indeed a Chinese herbal medicine. The scope and usage of treating diseases are recorded in medical books of past dynasties. Farmers can sell it in autumn and winter when they dig it out and dry it, and consumers can make soup or medicinal materials when they buy it back.

Most of them are wild farmers and rarely grow.

In fact, pueraria lobata is a very common wild plant. Comparing it with ginseng, it is called "Asian ginseng", which invisibly raises the price and is suspected of speculating the status of ginseng. Pueraria lobata and ginseng are actually incomparable. For ordinary farmers, it is just a wild plant. As the netizen said: Our village is everywhere, farmers are not rare, and no one comes to buy it. Some netizens said that they only know that Pueraria lobata can relieve alcoholism and found no other uses. There are many wild kudzu vines in the mountains near our hometown. Local farmers will use kudzu vines to tie things or weave baskets, but with the development of kudzu vines, there will be price advantages in the future.

Does pueraria lobata have any development prospects?

Pueraria lobata is rich in starch and processed into what we call Ge Fen. During the slack season in autumn and winter, some farmers will dig pueraria lobata, take it home to make powder, and eat or sell Ge Fen to earn money. Pueraria lobata powder is not as easy as sweet potato. After digging, it should be cleaned, then crushed with tools, and then deposited in water to get Ge Fen. However, with the development of the nutritional value of Ge Fen products and the convenience of processing equipment, it is believed that Pueraria lobata will also be planted artificially from the wild, which will become a way for farmers to get rich and increase their income.

It is understood that the pueraria lobata products currently developed include Ge Fen, refined pueraria lobata powder, pueraria lobata mask and pueraria lobata beverage. I have also tasted the Agger powder in meal replacement powder, which is really delicious. Now it is obvious that the resources of wild pueraria lobata in rural areas in some places are obviously reduced, and it is necessary to artificially plant pueraria lobata to supplement the market. At present, we know that wild pueraria is produced in Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places. Of course, there are many in Henan, which are mainly used to process Ge Fen.

Why do farmers seldom grow pueraria lobata?

I also inquired about this question. In fact, wild pueraria lobata is not very strict with the growth environment such as soil. It is estimated that wild resources are abundant. After all, there are many places suitable for planting pueraria lobata in rural areas, which can grow on hillsides and village roadsides without occupying cultivated land.

The quality of wild pueraria lobata is better than that of pueraria lobata planted by farmers, and the price is expensive, which I think is also a main reason. In fact, it is easy to grow pueraria lobata. Cutting wild kudzu vine into small pieces can grow in farmland, but its stress resistance and barren resistance are not as good as those of wild kudzu vine. Therefore, farmers should plant kudzu vine and do a good job in farmland management, otherwise the economic benefits of planting will not be so objective.

There are many wild pueraria lobata on the mountain not far from our hometown, but the habit of eating pueraria lobata is very few. Farmers cut more pueraria lobata strips to tie things or weave baskets. However, with the improvement of the consumption level of urban and rural residents, more attention will be paid to the choice of healthy and safe ingredients, and wild pueraria powder will also have a good market, but more selling points need to be extracted, otherwise it will still be an unknown wild plant in the mountains.