Chapter 80: Desert Gold Mine
Zanthoxylum pepper is different from cumin, Zanthoxylum pepper is drought tolerant, likes sunlight, and its plant height is relatively high, after growing up, the height can reach up to 7 meters, it belongs to multi-season plants, and can be picked continuously. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Cumin is a herbaceous plant, annual or biennial, that is, it can only survive for one or two years, and the height of cumin is not high, generally about 20-40 centimeters.
Although it is a herbaceous plant, it is a drought-tolerant and waterlogg-resistant plant, and the plant is relatively short and can be interplanted, so Lin Quan's arrangement for it is planted with peppercorns.
The soil fixing ability of Zanthoxylum pepper is relatively strong, and the demand for light for cumin is not very large, so the two complement each other well, at the beginning of the slow growth of Zanthoxylum, so it can leave a certain space for cumin, and so on in the future, Zanthoxylum grows up, and then do not plant cumin under it, anyway, cumin can not survive for a few years, the time point is just right.
These two spices are actually not very suitable for planting in desert areas, they are more suitable for planting in the Gobi Desert and semi-desert areas, so Lin Quan's consideration of location is very important.
He planted these plants along the sand dunes to the east, lined up in a row, planted in the inner circle, and the outside was the sea buckthorn that was planted before, so that the impact of wind and sand on these two plants will be slightly smaller, and when the sea buckthorn grows up, the drought of the land will also be alleviated, the root system of sea buckthorn is very long, able to absorb and fix water, and then the groundwater level of this large forest will rise, because with the spread of the root system, the formation of the upper soil, the loss of water will be slowed down, so that the living environment of pepper will be greatly improved.
Originally, it takes three to five years for a sea buckthorn plant to grow, but Lin Quan has an artifact in his hand, this time can be shortened by seventy percent, it only takes one year, basically the sea buckthorn forest can be formed, and sea buckthorn is a deciduous shrub, the leaves are precious in the desert area, the rotten leaves will be an important component of the soil, and the sea buckthorn also has the effect of improving the soil quality, this plant is the treasure of the desert area.
At present, in addition to sea buckthorn, the farm also has a part of Populus euphratica, but compared with sea buckthorn, Populus euphratica is a large deciduous tree, the diameter of its trunk can reach 1.5 meters, so it needs more water, and the space is larger, so it is unrealistic to plant it on a large scale at this stage, Lin Quan does not have so many manpower and material resources in his hands, and there is not so much water resources to maintain it, so he can only try to plant in small batches.
After all, this is a large tree, which cannot be compared with a shrub with a height of less than two meters, but for Lin Quan, his farm is to be used to make money, and sand prevention and control is just a sideline.
And if the economic value is compared, sea buckthorn is obviously to throw off the poplar several streets.
Sea buckthorn is an economic plant, the product can be edible, can be used medicinally, can also beautify the face, can prevent sand fixation, the effect is very large, and this guy is simply a small strong in the desert, the vitality can not be described by tenacity, it can only be described by metamorphosis.
Sea buckthorn has not very strict requirements for soil, it is distributed in millet lime soil, gray lime soil, brown lime soil, meadow soil, black retaining soil, gravel soil, mild saline-alkali soil, sandy soil, and even in arsenic sandstone and half-stone and half-earth areas can also grow, and this guy is also very adaptable to temperature, the temperature is no problem exceeding 50 degrees Celsius, and the area where Lin Quan is located is simply a paradise for sea buckthorn.
The only weakness of this short creature is that it has certain water requirements, and the rainfall needs to reach about 400 mm to maintain, after all, it is a broad-leaved plant, and water evaporates faster than coniferous forests, but if it is planted in an area with rich groundwater, or near rivers and other water sources, it has no problem surviving.
The fruit and oil of sea buckthorn were developed by the Soviets in the last century, and it was found that the fruit and oil of sea buckthorn have high medicinal value, which can reduce cholesterol, cure angina pectoris, etc., and also prevent and treat coronary atherosclerotic heart disease; It has the effect of expectorant, cough, asthma and treatment of chronic bronchitis; It can treat gastric and duodenal ulcers and indigestion, and has significant curative effects on chronic superficial gastritis, atrophic gastritis, colitis and other diseases; It has a good therapeutic effect on burns, scalds, knife burns, and frostbite; It has a good therapeutic effect on cervical erosion in women.
Not only that, the sea buckthorn fruit is rich in nutrients, and it has been determined that the fruit contains a variety of vitamins, fatty acids, trace elements, linolein, sea buckthorn flavonoids, superoxide and other active substances and various amino acids required by the human body. Among them, the vitamin C content is extremely high, and the vitamin C content can reach 825-1100 mg per 100 grams of juice.
In China, there is a drug for the treatment of colds, called vitamin C Yinqiao tablets, this drug is cheap, the effect is also good, the key is that there are no side effects, supplement vitamins to improve immunity, so it is very popular with everyone.
In the domestic and world markets, most of the current vitamins are synthetic, the efficiency of industrial synthesis is higher, the cost is lower, and it is better than extraction, but many chemicals will be used in the process of industrial synthesis, which will cause serious environmental pollution, for example, Shijiazhuang is the main distribution location of the pharmaceutical industry, where the penicillin industry is the most concentrated, accounting for 45% of the global market, and the vitamin industry is also concentrated here, and the production of these drugs, the pollutants produced are very terrifying, The pollution caused by these pharmaceutical factories is much worse than industrial pollution.
In these years, everyone has a good impression of green and natural things, and when they hear about things with this name, they will be interested in it, and they have an instinctive resistance to industrial products.
The vitamin C content of sea buckthorn fruit is very high, and the extraction cost and economic benefits are many times higher than that extracted from cherries, but this is not as good as industrial extraction, after all, the industry uses two stages of fermentation method from glucose, and the extraction efficiency can exceed 10%, and the extraction from sea buckthorn fruit, the highest efficiency is only 1%, and the gap is too big to compare.
But sea buckthorn fruit is not only vitamin C, it also has other medicinal functions, if it can be sold, the market must be good, after all, the medicinal value is too high, and it is also a dietary therapy, everyone likes this tone.
For example, people know that apples have malic acid in them, which can help them lose weight, so apples are sought after by people, especially young women who are troubled by weight.
In the same way, if the medicinal value of sea buckthorn fruit is promoted, such as lowering cholesterol, curing angina, and preventing coronary atherosclerotic heart disease; expectorant, cough suppressant, asthma and treatment of chronic bronchitis; treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers and dyspepsia, treatment of chronic superficial gastritis, atrophic gastritis, colitis and other diseases; treatment of burns, scalds, knife burns, frostbite; The effects of improving women's cervical erosion and so on have been promoted, so everyone is afraid that they will rush to this thing!
Lin Quan felt very excited when he thought about it, so he went online to see if there was any sea buckthorn fruit for sale on the Internet, he first logged in to a certain treasure, and found that the price of this thing was really ridiculously expensive!
200 grams was sold for 40 yuan! It's equivalent to 100 yuan a catty! How many sea buckthorns does he have on his farm? No less than 40,000 plants, right?
Lin Quan felt like he was sitting on a desert gold mine!