Wasabi has been cultivated in China for nearly 20 years. Since the mid-1990s, wasabi has been planted in Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangxi and Shaanxi. But most of them failed, because the growth of wasabi requires high ecological environment, long growth cycle and large investment.
Yunnan Institute of Alpine Botany was successfully planted in Baoshan, Yunnan. At present, there are thousands of acres of planting area in Yunnan, with an annual output of about 2,000 tons of wasabi.
Erlang Mountain in Ya 'an, Sichuan, Xiling Snow Mountain in Dayi, Chengdu, and Guanwu Mountain in Jiangyou, Mianyang have all developed more than 10,000 mu of planting.
Just like the super rice in Yuan Longping, scientists searched for wild wasabi in the mountains to improve it, and cultivated a series of high-quality varieties, which were successfully commercialized.
With the tissue culture of wasabi seedlings, the breakthrough of organic pesticide and organic fertilizer technology, the popularization of field management norms, the optimization of planting mode, the improvement of mountain roads and communication infrastructure, and the improvement of wasabi processing ability and product research and development ability, the mountainous area in northwest Sichuan will develop into a planting area of100000 mu in the next few years, with an annual output of tens of thousands of tons of wasabi.
Numerous pioneers and even martyrs' large-scale planting experiments have proved that geological disasters, droughts, floods, pests and diseases, strong irradiation in low latitudes, pesticide residues exceeding the standard and so on. It may bring a devastating blow to the wasabi industry; The only way to succeed is to have a strong determination to the wasabi industry, the application of modern biotechnology, the continuous investment ability and the uncompromising pursuit of the quality of organic agricultural products. At the same time, it also proves that only Ya 'an Tianquan Erlang Mountain, Chengdu Dayi Xiling Snow Mountain and Mianyang Jiangyou Guanwushan have plots that meet harsh planting conditions and have commercial scale planting value.