Xiangning Prickly Ash

Xiangning Prickly Ash

　　Xiangning Prickly Ash

　　Xiangning County has developed 12 million prickly ash trees, with per capita income increasing by 500 yuan among farmers in the main production areas. The prickly ash industry has become a true green industry that enriches the people.

　　Xiangning County has taken measures such as providing free seedlings and free technical guidance to boost farmers’ enthusiasm for planting prickly ash trees. It has successively built the Zaoling Yellow River Prickly Ash Belt, the Hanjiao 5,000-Mu Prickly Ash Park, and the Changning 100-Li Prickly Ash Corridor. Zaoling Township, located close to the Yellow River, has adopted a “fruit and prickly ash strengthen the township” strategy to enrich local residents, sparking a wave of prickly ash tree planting across the township. In just five or six years, the township developed over 7 million prickly ash trees, with more than 2 million bearing fruit, yielding 75,000 kilograms of prickly ash annually and generating an annual income of over 22.5 million yuan—accounting for more than 60% of farmers’ net income. The prickly ash industry has become a cash cow for the local people. To further grow and strengthen this industry, the county established a Fruit and Prickly Ash Association. It also applied to register the “Xiangning Red” brand of prickly ash, continuously extending the industry’s value chain. Currently, the county has developed 12 million prickly ash trees, making it the second-largest prickly ash producing area in China. The economic and ecological benefits brought by the prickly ash industry are becoming increasingly prominent.