Jiyang Garlic

Jiyang Garlic

Jiyang Garlic is a geographical indication protected product.

　　Jiyang Garlic is a traditional premium product from Guangshui City with a long history. It is renowned for being produced around Jiyang Mountain in Chenxiang and has an annual output of 30,000 tons. Jiyang Garlic is of high quality—large bulbs (over 4.5 cm), thin skin, tender flesh, even cloves, spicy flavor, and rich nutrition. It is not only a delicious dish on the dining table but also, according to ancient medical texts such as the “Compendium of Materia Medica,” garlic has the effects of regulating Qi stagnation, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating childhood malnutrition, treating diarrhea, detoxifying, killing parasites, preventing gastric cancer, cirrhosis, and coronary heart disease.

　　Chenxiang Town is one of the main garlic-producing areas in Guangshui City, with over 10,000 mu of current planting area. It currently produces 8,000 tons of garlic sprouts and 1,200 tons of garlic bulbs annually. In 2003, it received nearly 4.44 million yuan in national agricultural comprehensive development investment from China, enabling the formation of a planting area of over 20,000 mu. Together with neighboring towns, it can achieve a planting scale of nearly 100,000 mu. Product directions include garlic slices, garlic paste, allicin, garlic crystals, garlic powder, garlic pickles, and more.

　　Garlic has both edible and medicinal value. The development of a series of products with functions such as antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, blood lipid lowering, and platelet aggregation inhibition holds great market potential. It is a new, highly effective, and ideal natural health product, selling well in Southeast Asian regions such as Japan, Malaysia, Korea, and developed countries in Europe and America.

　　The production area of Jiyang Garlic includes the following eight towns and subdistricts under the jurisdiction of Guangshui City, Hubei Province: Taiping Township, Lidian Township, Luodian Township, Chenxiang Town, Shili Subdistrict Office, Chengjiao Township, Yangzhai Town, and Guangshui Subdistrict Office.