Badong konjac is a specialty of Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province.

The soil and climate in Badong County are particularly suitable for growing konjac, and the konjac grown is of good quality and large in size.

Konjac belongs to the phylum Angiosperm, class Monocotyledon, and family Araceae.

It can be processed into refined flour, vermicelli, taro cake, canned food and other flavor foods, which are highly favored by gourmets at home and abroad.

It also has the effects of reducing swelling and stasis, detoxifying and relieving pain, fighting and preventing cancer, lowering cholesterol, preventing and treating high blood pressure, cleaning the stomach and intestines, and helping digestion.

It also has good therapeutic effects on cholelithiasis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, constipation and hemorrhoids.

There is also a substance called "hemana" in konjac, which can control people's weight. Long-term consumption can help lose weight and keep fit.

Konjac is not only an ideal food, but also an important industrial raw material and is widely used in petroleum exploration, chemical industry, printing and dyeing and other industries.

Badong is not only a key immigration county in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, but also falls within the scope of the country’s western development.

In order to make full use of advantageous resources, develop characteristic industries, and accelerate the pace of farmers in mountainous areas of western Hubei to get rid of poverty and become rich, the Hubei Provincial People's Government issued the "Decision on Vigorously Promoting the Construction of Konjac Industrialization in Our Province" and formulated the "Hubei Province Konjac Sector Economic Development Plan"

", designated Enshi Prefecture as the province's konjac production center area, and Badong County is an important part of the province and prefecture's konjac industrialization construction and konjac plate economic development plan.

In recent years, Badong County has guided farmers to develop the konjac industry in accordance with the model of "one county, one speciality", "one village, one product, one village, one industry", and introduced two konjac preliminary finished product processing plants, allowing villagers to sell konjac at their doorsteps

, At present, the planting area of ??konjac is 63,000 acres, with an output of more than 220,000 tons, mainly distributed in Qingtaiping, Jinguoping, Yesanguan and other towns.

It mainly promotes the breeding technology of improved konjac seeds. In 2005, Badong County was awarded the title of the largest konjac planting county in the country.