From taro to taro balls in milk tea: a "new track" for rural revitalization in Yaoshan

Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County and the surrounding Lipu in Guilin City, Guangxi Province are rich in taro, where taro has a delicate taste and is sweet and soft, but in the past, taro could only be served on the table, and growers could not sell it at a good price
.

In the past four years, Guilin Brande Biotechnology Co.
, Ltd.
has provided raw materials such as taro balls and taro paste for well-known tea brands, and its daily production capacity has increased from about 10 tons to more than 200 tons at present, and the annual output value has developed from several million yuan to hundreds of millions of yuan
today.

This "new track" has also led to an increase in farmers' income
.
Brande Company has driven the planting of more than 10,000 mu of local taro and other agricultural products, with an income of more than 6,000 yuan per mu of land, and more than
800 local jobs.

In order to meet the needs of the market, the company currently plans to focus on improving the quality of raw materials at the base, improving the automation of equipment production lines, and developing new markets
.

(Reporter Liang Shun, Huang Kaiying)