Introduction: Growing like pearls in rice paddies, it will be listed again in April, with an yield of less than 10 catties per mu, but there are still people planting
Spring rain is the most rain, under the moisture of spring rain, all things in heaven and earth have also ushered in a crazy growth. In the southern rice paddies there is a wild vegetable, which is about to start marketing again. This wild vegetable is called "pearl vegetable" and grows very much like pearls in rice paddies.
In Our country, the consumption of pearl vegetables has a history of thousands of years, don't look at it rootless and leafless floating in the water, mu yield less than 10 pounds, but in the market has been sold according to grams, a pound to hundreds of yuan, so there are still many people planting.
Popular science of pearl vegetables
Pearl vegetable, when you hear the name, you will think that it is a wild vegetable that looks like a pearl. In fact, in the strict sense, it is not a wild vegetable that everyone knows, because it is not a plant at all, with no leaves or roots, but a round and rolling pearl.
Pearl vegetables are also called Tianxian cabbage and Gexian rice, because when it is dried, it looks like the shape of black rice. And its shape in the water is also very similar to the fungus, so some places also call it "tianmu ear", "water fungus".
Pearl vegetables are actually closely related to another wild vegetable we know as well, that is, ground fungus. Pearl cabbage is also a spheroid candida, belonging to the cyanobacteria candidae, is a high-protein, high-nutrient substance. The history of eating pearl vegetables in China is very long, and in ancient times, the folk also called it "panacea".
Pearl vegetable has no roots, no leaves, and floats directly in water, but it can photosynthesize. Mainly grown in rice fields, rivers and some lakes, the size is generally not large, round and rolling like dark green pearls, generally below 2cm, and in recent years, artificial planting in some places may grow to about 5cm.
In 20 years ago, in many rice fields and lakes in the south, in the spring in March and April, you would see the dense pearl vegetables in the rice fields. At that time, many people would take a tool to the water to catch it, and then take it home as wild vegetables, or dry it and eat it.
Due to the later application of a large number of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and pearl vegetables have extremely high requirements for the growing environment, so now wild pearl vegetables are very rare, basically rely on cultivation. The yield of this wild vegetable is very low, don't look at an acre of land can catch two or three hundred catties of pearl vegetables, but after drying, it is about 10 catties. Dried pearl vegetables in the market are sold by grams, generally more than 100 yuan a catty. If it is a pearl vegetable with uniform size and particles, it will sell for hundreds of yuan per kilogram, which is a wild vegetable of high value.
The main reason for this is that pearl vegetables are not only very delicious and delicious, but also have high nutritional value, it contains a variety of amino acids, proteins and vitamins, etc., of which pearl vegetables have as many as 17 kinds of amino acids, containing 7 kinds of essential amino acids for human beings. And pearl vegetables also have more efficient therapeutic value, have the effect of clearing heat and eyesight, and can cure redness and swelling, night blindness, and burns.
In addition, the yield of pearl vegetables is very low, and an acre of land can produce dry products that is about 10 catties, so the rarity is expensive, and its price is constantly rising. In recent years, in Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou and other regions, it has also specially developed the cultivation of pearl vegetables.
Conclusion
The main reason is that the cultivation of pearl vegetables in rice fields will not affect the cultivation of rice at all. When the rice is harvested in November, you can grow pearl vegetables in the rice fields, and in March or April of the following year, you can catch pearl vegetables and dry them for sale. After that, you can continue to plant seedlings to grow rice, so planting pearl vegetables in the rice field can also make use of the idle rice field.
Although its yield is low, it is expensive and does not hinder rice cultivation, which is why many farmers are willing to grow pearl vegetables.
April is coming, and it's time for pearl vegetables to be on the market in large quantities, like some farmers in Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou who are busy in the farmland with tools, that is, fishing for pearl vegetables. If your hometown environment is good, you may also see an inky black pearl in the rice field, and it is pearl vegetable. Don't miss it, hundreds of dollars a pound! Even wet ones can sell for about ten yuan a pound.
Friends, have you ever eaten this pearl dish? It is estimated that many people have not eaten it, and some people have seen it and do not know that it can be eaten!