Buckwheat Baijiu

Buckwheat Baijiu

　　Buckwheat Baijiu

　　Situated on the Sanbian Plateau, Jingbian County is a prime buckwheat-growing region. The naturally cultivated "Yuqiao-4" and "buckwheat" varieties from the Baiyu Mountain area are well-known green foods. In 2007, the organizing committee of the 10th International Buckwheat Conference and the First Yulin International Buckwheat Festival recognized Jingbian buckwheat and Jingbian bitter buckwheat as premium small grain varieties. As a concentrated buckwheat production area in northern Shaanxi, Jingbian involves 14 townships, with a planting area of 90,000 mu. However, for a long time, farmers in the Baiyu Mountain area in southern Jingbian, who mainly grew buckwheat and other minor grains, experienced slow income growth. Buckwheat was only used by local farmers to simply grind into flour for consumption, without forming a deep-processing industrial chain. Last year, a baijiu company set its sights on Jingbian buckwheat, invested in building a factory in Erdejing Village, Hongdunjie Town, and hired a master distiller from Sichuan with a high salary to launch buckwheat baijiu. China’s first baijiu brand brewed from buckwheat was born in Yulin, filling a gap in the buckwheat baijiu market.