Humulus, is one of China's five major oil crops, the current national planting area of about 10 million mu, annual output of about 400,000 tons, is China's industrial dry vegetable oils and crop areas of the masses of the main source of edible oil.

According to the author's research, although the houma oil is mainly planted in China's North China and Northwest China to Gansu, northern and western Shanxi, northern Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places. Production is also a lot, but for what houma oil but few people in the south to eat it?

Here is the main introduction to the origin of hu ma, planting and fertilization and development, on the one hand, so that everyone understands the simple knowledge of hu ma and hu ma oil, planting and fertilization, and at the same time for the development of hu ma oil to put forward their own ideas.

Humulus harvest

A, Humulus profile

Humulus, belonging to the Linaceae, is a kind of flax. Originated from the Mediterranean coast, is China's northwest, north China on the oil flax and oil and fiber flax common name. And some people will be Hu oil and linseed oil collectively referred to as together is not when, its pressing method is completely different.

Humulus plant is relatively small, divided into stems and branches of the tree more, thin stalks, fiber content and quality of the general, plant height of about 70 cm or so, the oil content of about 40%. After harvesting the seeds, the extraction of oil is the main.

Some people take the oil extracted from sesame as hu oil, because sesame is classified into the family of hu ma, and its oil is also known as hu ma oil, this is because the ancient sesame oil is called hu ma oil, and has medicinal value. And modern times have separated sesame oil and houma oil. The real houma oil is exactly in the northern and western regions of China's production of houma in the linen family.

In the past 20 years, the amount of houma planting and production declined accordingly, while India, Canada and other countries are still a lot of houma planting.

Humulus oil

Second, why the caraway oil has become the main edible oil in the northern region

Humulus, as an oilseed crop, suitable for planting in cool, high-altitude areas.

Humulus contains about 22% protein, 45% oil, oil has more than 60% unsaturated fatty acids, 26% fiber, 7% carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and lignin. From the point of view of nutritional composition, unsaturated fatty acids on the human body has three major benefits:

1, to ensure that the normal physiological activity of human cells;

2, to reduce blood viscosity, to improve the symptoms of hypertension;

3, to improve the human body's high blood fat environment .

Therefore, after the hot pressing of hemp as raw material, the unsaturated fatty acids will not be destroyed, the human body has considerable benefits.

Our northwestern region of Shenchi County abounds in hemp, the local people according to the tradition of hemp for hemp oil, their own consumption. Combined with local mutton, the physique is the best in northwestern Jin. This may have a lot to do with the diet. And Shenchi County, as well as northwestern Jinzhou area farmers with houma oil to do some of the special food and eating style, is also unique.

Humulus oil fried cake

1, Humulus oil fried cake

Farmers in northwestern Jinshi area are hospitable, there are guests, in addition to the dishes, there must be fried cake, said the host of the guest's respect. Cake flour (yellow rice, i.e., corn) into the basin, warm water, while stirring with chopsticks. Steam the noodles for 20 minutes, then dip your hands in cool water and mix the noodles well. This side to the empty five big pot into the sesame oil, boiling, the cake dough into a ball put out of the frying pan, deep-fried for a few minutes to the yellowing can be fished out, dipped in sugar can be eaten.

Humulus oil fried cake, one is good in the local cake surface, one is the Humulus oil, are specialties of northwestern Jin, both a match, color and taste unique.

2, sesame oil twist

Sesame flower everywhere in the country, but the sesame flower made with sesame oil has two kinds of soft and crisp. Both need to be cooled and eaten to avoid burning your tongue with the sesame oil. The sesame flower with houma oil is really not greasy mouth, crispy and sweet. The local people with sesame oil fried sesame flowers, mainly when farming, noon generally do not go home to cook, take the sesame flowers as a staple food, on the mouth when the rice. It is also a reflection of contemporary farmers' thriftiness.

Shenchi mooncake

3, sesame oil mooncake

Shenchi mooncake nationally famous, good in the use of sesame oil, and spare oil. Mooncakes crispy, but not lack of soft, simple processing technology, highlighting the simple peasant culture. This moon cake cast into the porcelain jar can be stored for a year, does not change flavor, does not rot, can be seen in the efficacy of sesame oil.

4, black meat braised vegetables in sesame oil

Jinbei people delicious, plus the habit of raising sheep. So usually eat, are very willing to put meat. Pork cut into large pieces, with potatoes, vermicelli, tofu, (are local specialties) with Hu oil as the base oil, stewed out of the chowder, in other areas will not have such a delicious. One of the houma oil aroma wafts around, unique.

5, mixing cold dishes pouring oil color and fragrance

Northern people like to pour oil in the cold dishes. Pouring oil when the oil baking hot, with pepper, poured to the gazpacho, can immediately feel the fragrance of the house, the unique flavor of sesame oil is revealed. We went to the farmhouse, met at noon cooking, outside the village can smell this let a person drooling flavor, is indeed a local scenery.

Humulus oil as a kind of oil, have so many uses, but also God gave the people of northwestern Jin a delicious bar. It also forms the simple feelings of farmers in northwestern Jinxi. Local people even if the broken house rotten yard, but also will not let themselves and guests in the mouth to suffer, this is also a kind of tradition it. We used to joke about the northwestern Jin people said: poor is because of poor food. In fact, it is also a kind of flirtation, no malice.

Humulus planting

Three, Humulus planting, fertilization, pests and diseases

Humulus oil is so tasty, and it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, so good for the human body. So, how is the process of growing hemp? Fertilizer, pests and diseases and what preventive measures? Look down.

1, seeding

Humulus seeding to open furrow sowing, row spacing of about 30-35 centimeters, acres of seedlings about 200,000 or so. Some dense planting up to 300,000 plants. Simple and easy to work, northwestern Jinbei farmers generally used for dryland crop rotation. Or corn planting hu ma crop.

Humulus about the summer after the soil temperature of 3-5 degrees can be sown, about to October to see the bottom leaves of Humulus yellow off, or fruit condition of most of the yellow, that can be harvested.

2, fertilization

Now the fertilizer to the local pig and sheep manure after rotting organic fertilizers, acres of bottom fertilizer 10-15 kg or so, mainly nitrogen-phosphorus composite fertilizer. Hu Ma does not chase fertilizer, natural growth, because of its drought resistance, cold resistance performance is good, so it is also a kind of labor-saving lazy crop, just harvesting is more troublesome.

3, pest control

The main disease of hemp is wilt, because wilt was more serious in the early 1990s, once farmers could not plant. Now, including Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and other places to cope with the wilt of hu ma developed the corresponding new varieties. Shanxi Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences alpine developed Jin Ya 6, 7, 13 are good varieties to cope with huima wilt, but also have the corresponding effect of yield increase.

4, weed

Because of the special nature of the hu ma, in the seedling grows up after 5 centimeters or so, sometimes more grass than the seedling, so the control of grass is an important work. Because some years ago, the spraying of fluroxypyr was more common, and there are corresponding drug damage. Now some areas use Naphthacin and dimethyl tetrachloro to get rid of grass.

So in recent years, it is recommended to do a reasonable crop rotation, or planted in the old film of corn, and for crop rotation, and less grass.

That said, need to give you a handout. In fact, the actual mu yield of hu ma is very low, ordinary just between 200-260 pounds, some will be lower. From the current market price, less than 3 yuan / catty, all the income is only 500-700 yuan, in addition to expenses, farmers have little left. Therefore, now the Northwest Jinnian hemp planting is not as large as the Gansu Dingbian area planting.

The main impact of foreign hu ma products shipped back than the domestic cheap, so attracted the hu ma processing households to buy imported hu ma, which is a domestic hu ma planting is a small blow.

Humulus oil

Four, how to make the South love hemp oil, hemp oil and linseed oil difference

Authentic Humulus oil is so good, why is it not as good as linseed oil in the South by the masses welcome it? In fact, houma oil and linseed oil or there are some differences it, of course, we can not deny one to affirm one. Because jin linseed oil is also produced in the north more. Some people also claim that linseed oil is also caraway oil, I have not examined, but feel a little sense.

In fact, the difference between linseed oil and hemp oil is mainly in one point, that is, the pressing method is not the same.

1, flaxseed oil is manufactured by cold pressing process, does not damage the fatty acids in the oil, and the manufacturing process is clean and hygienic, is a better oil. But if it is refined linseed oil, its manufacturing temperature will exceed 200 degrees Celsius, will damage the fatty acids, but the nutrition will be reduced .

2, sesame oil is hot press, the process is relatively simple, while with the yellow medium with the press, in order to avoid the astringent flavor of the sesame press out. Hemp oil out of the reddish-brown, long time with a small amount of precipitation, so Hemp oil should be eaten now, should not be put for a long time. But its mooncake products can be put for a long time, which seems to be a strange phenomenon. Authentic houma oil is not transparent, as long as it is to transparent houma oil will have to think about whether the amount is pure.

This way, caraway oil and linseed oil have their own advantages and disadvantages. But I believe that after the improvement of the pressing method, hemp oil will not hurt the fatty acid premise, more delicious, more practical, so that the whole country can eat authentic hemp oil.

Humulus harvest

The above is a brief introduction to the general situation of hemp and hemp oil, as well as the northern region of farmers and urban people why more like to eat hemp oil, as well as hemp planting a brief process and fertilization, pest control, but also with linseed oil to do a brief comparison to give a friend who wants to eat houmous oil a choice of methods. Currently hemp oil because of its unique unsaturated fatty acids, for human health can provide the appropriate nutrition, so its market potential is also quite large. Just a good oil crop in the current situation, the need for all aspects of support to stimulate farmers to plant, in order to cooperate with the processing enterprises to do a good job of oil. I believe that hemp as China's top five oil crops will be more and more development.