Yangshan Chinese Yam

Yangshan Chinese Yam

Yangshan Chinese Yam is a geographical indication protected product.

　　  Chinese yam is one of the renowned, high-quality, and specialty agricultural products of Yangshan County. It boasts excellent quality, with a long, straight appearance, large size, smooth and even texture, a yellowish-brown skin, and snow-white flesh. Each yam weighs between 1.5 to 3 kilograms. It is highly nutritious and has both dietary and medicinal uses, offering benefits such as strengthening the spleen, nourishing the lungs, fortifying the digestive tract, and benefiting the kidneys. In recent years, Yangshan County has made full use of its unique natural advantages, including the fertile, loose, and well-aerated sandy loam soil in the alluvial plains along the riverbanks, and the large diurnal temperature variations in the hilly and mountainous areas, to develop Chinese yam production on a large scale. In 2009, the county’s Chinese yam planting area exceeded 20,000 mu, with a total output of nearly 40,000 tons and a total output value of 160 million yuan. The product is not only sold to the Pearl River Delta region but also exported to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, making Yangshan the largest Chinese yam production base in Guangdong Province.