The chrysanthemum base in Dagze County Modern Agriculture Industrial Park ushers the florescence. The base now is a world of chrysanthemum flowers and the air is full of pleasant scent.
Last year, Xu Lijun, deputy director of Lhasa Science and Technology Bureau, tried planting the tea-applied silver chrysanthemum and euryops pectinatu. The introduced varieties all grew well, with the survival rate over 90 percent.
“The chrysanthemum blossoms are blooming and it is time to pick them. Our race against time begins,” Xu said to pickers hired from villages nearby while he was picking flowers.
Each picker should check whether the chrysanthemum blossom has been exposed to the frost or not. Cangjue is a villager nearby and has been a picker for a week. “I work eight hours a day and the wage is good,” Cangjue said.
It takes about half an hour to process fresh flowers to dried ones. Xu said: “Further processing is needed before chrysanthemum blossoms are turned into commodities”.
A 200,000 yuan tea-applied chrysanthemum processing and production line has been built with a microwave drying and sterilizing device brought from the inland.
With this workshop, the minimum economic value one mu of field yield can amount to 30,000 yuan." Xu Lijun said.
According to Xu, through further processing, packaging, brand building and market promotion, highland chrysanthemum can be sold to more places.
What’s more, this project can help farmers and herdsmen around increase income and contribute to Tibet’s characteristic sector development.
