Where is the konjac specialty in Badong?

Konjac in Badong is a specialty of Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province. The soil and climate in Badong county are particularly suitable for planting konjac, which is of good quality and large size.

Amorphophallus belongs to angiosperm, monocotyledonous plant and Araceae. Can be processed into refined powder, vermicelli, taro cake, canned food and other flavor foods, deeply favored by domestic and foreign gourmets. It also has the effects of detumescence, removing blood stasis, detoxicating and relieving pain, preventing and treating cancer, lowering cholesterol, preventing and treating hypertension, cleaning the stomach and helping digestion. It also has a good therapeutic effect on gallstones, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, constipation and hemorrhoids. There is also a substance called "Hymanna" in konjac, which can control people's weight and can lose weight and keep fit after long-term consumption. Konjac is not only an ideal food, but also an important industrial raw material, which is widely used in petroleum exploration, chemical industry, printing and dyeing and other industries.

Badong is not only a key immigrant county in the Three Gorges reservoir area, but also belongs to the scope of China's western development. In order to make full use of superior resources, develop characteristic industries, and speed up the pace of farmers getting rid of poverty and becoming rich in mountainous areas of western Hubei, the Hubei Provincial People's Government issued the Decision on Vigorously Promoting the Construction of Amorphophallus Industrialization in Our Province, and formulated the Economic Development Plan of Amorphophallus Plate in Hubei Province, which identified Enshi as the center of Amorphophallus production in the whole province, and Badong County was an important part of the development plan of Amorphophallus industry in the whole province and even the whole state.

In recent years, Badong County has guided farmers to develop konjac industry according to the model of "one county, one specialty" and "one village, one product and one village, one industry", and introduced two konjac processing factories so that villagers can sell konjac at their doorstep. At present, the planting area of Amorphophallus konjac is 63,000 mu, and the output is more than 220,000 tons, mainly distributed in Qingtaiping, Jinguoping, Yesanguan and other towns. Mainly promote the breeding technology of improved varieties of konjac taro whip In 2005, Badong County was awarded as a major konjac planting county by the whole country.