Xiangshui Burdock

Xiangshui Burdock

　　Xiangshui burdock is a specialty of Xiangshui County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Burdock is a high-end vegetable with excellent nutritional and health benefits.

　　Over the past few years, the burdock industry chain in Xiangshui County has continued to grow. As of now, the county has newly expanded its burdock planting base by over 6,000 mu, with 2,000 mu under greenhouse cultivation, and the area of export vegetable bases has surpassed 10,000 mu. At the same time, an investment of 50 million yuan has been made to launch new production lines for deep processing of burdock sauce and salted lotus roots. The annual processing capacity exceeds 10,000 tons of burdock and 4,000 tons of shallow-water lotus roots, which are mainly exported to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and other regions. This has generated sales revenue of over 80 million yuan and profits and taxes of more than 8 million yuan.