'Honeysuckle' comes from the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and has been hailed as a good medicine for detoxification and detoxification since ancient times. China's honeysuckle has a wide range of plantings and is distributed in all provinces. Honeysuckle's extensive medicinal value and health-care use have brought unlimited value to merchants. Business opportunities, thus promoting the development of honeysuckle industry.
Xingtai: Significant effect of honeysuckle industry in poverty alleviation
Xingtai, Hebei Province: Positive Effects of Poverty Alleviation in Honeysuckle Industry
In 2017, Xingtai City, Hebei Province vigorously implemented precision poverty alleviation, precision poverty alleviation, development of poverty alleviation industries as the main direction, and improvement of production and living conditions in rural areas as the focal point. All work on poverty alleviation was implemented, and poverty alleviation achieved positive results.
It is understood that the city has vigorously developed six poverty alleviation industries such as planting, aquaculture, rural e-commerce, and tourism services. Among them, Julu County relied on the long history of local honeysuckle planting and made the development of the honeysuckle industry an important means of poverty alleviation. The county's honeysuckle planting area of more than 10 million mu, involving more than 90 honeysuckle processing companies, honeysuckle annual processing capacity of 1,000 tons, the annual output value of 1.2 billion.
Honeysuckle processing technology, process play a big role
The author learned from the procurement of pharmaceutical companies that according to the different drying qualities of honeysuckle, the price is not the same. The price of special flowers for blue and white dried flowers is generally 165-170 yuan, 160 yuan for a primary flower and 150 yuan for a secondary flower. Therefore, the quality level of honeysuckle directly determines the level of price. In addition, the fineness of honeysuckle is different, and the medicinal effect is also different. The better the color, the better the efficacy of honeysuckle is, and the value is higher.
According to the author's understanding, most traditional honeysuckles are dried using natural drying methods, but this method is greatly affected by natural factors, and the quality is difficult to guarantee. However, with the development of automation and mechanization, high-temperature heat pump dryers have been widely used. Solve the problems of traditional artificial drying, dry baking in the baking room, etc., which result in uneven quality, low drying efficiency, difficulty in controlling the drying temperature, etc. Meanwhile, the natural color of the honeysuckle material can be dried, and the shape is full. Effective ingredients, no loss of nutrients. As long as the requirements of the specification to operate, the general quality can reach the ordinary first or second class standards (national standards), and good quality, high selling price.
With the advancement of society and the development of science and technology, from the original medicinal value, we have developed into products for the development and production of health-care products such as honeysuckle tea, honeysuckle drinks, honeysuckle and other honeysuckle products containing honeysuckle ingredients. Development and utilization of research has become more and more in-depth. The author was informed that Wong Lo Kat herbal tea production base in North China using the international advanced Tetra Pak production process, build 3 green box herbal tea beverage production line, and herbal tea is also a deep processed product containing honeysuckle ingredients.
When it comes to herbal tea, honeysuckle is one of the most important herbal ingredients in herbal tea and it needs to be extracted before it can be used in production. According to relevant sources, honeysuckle is used as a raw material, weighed, washed, extracted by dynamic reflux, and then extracted. The liquid is filtered through a filter and placed in a storage tank. The extract is then sucked into a double-effect concentrator, vacuum concentrated to a certain density, further refined, and finally spray dried to obtain a honeysuckle extract.
Xiao Bian concludes: As an important cultivation area, Xingtai, Hebei Province, through the development of honeysuckle deep processing, not only led to the development of local processing industry, but also increased the income of farmers, and achieved positive results in poverty alleviation. The author believes that in the large health industry and related food technology With the help of craftsmanship, honeysuckle processing industry will bring more benefits to farmers.