Lizhu Cardamom

Lizhu Cardamom

　　Lizhu Cardamom is a specialty of Lizhu County in Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province.

　　Lizhu enjoys superior geographical, climatic, and soil advantages, making the development of the cardamom industry a veritable green bank and an inexhaustible treasure trove for the mountain people of Lizhu.

　　The cardamom industry in Lizhu County is an important part of the construction of the one-million-mu traditional Chinese medicinal materials base in Nujiang Prefecture. Since the 1990s, the cardamom industry project, aiming to develop ten thousand mu of cultivation, has been fully launched. By 2012, the total planting area of cardamom in the county reached 115,000 mu, with 30,000 mu in production, generating an annual output value of nearly 60 million yuan. It is expected that the output value will exceed 80 million yuan within the next two years.