The chestnut is known as the "king of dried fruits", has a high nutritional value, in traditional Chinese medicine that the chestnut has a kidney and spleen, strong body, stomach and liver, etc., sometimes also known as the "kidney fruit" or "ginseng king". "The king of the ginseng".

A mu of chestnuts can be planted 100 plants, a chestnut yield is only 40 pounds (with a certain age), then an acre of chestnuts can produce 4000 pounds. According to the current market purchase price of 5 yuan / catty calculation, mu output value can reach 20000 yuan. Last year, the price of chestnuts than in the past has declined, first-class fresh chestnuts (20 within / catty) per catty purchase price of 4.5 yuan, second-class fresh chestnuts (21 to 29 / catty) per catty purchase price of 3 yuan, third-class fresh chestnuts (more than 30 / catty) per catty purchase price of 1.5 yuan. Although the cost of chestnut is very high, but according to the market price now compared to the profit per acre will reach about tens of thousands of yuan, so compared to other crops, this plant is still more suitable for planting.

Chestnut is a deep-rooted tree, with a developed root system and a strong ability to absorb fertilizer. In its growth cycle, from the beginning of spring male flower differentiation, until the flowering, fruiting this period requires the most nitrogen fertilizer. Potassium fertilizer followed by less phosphorus. Chestnut trees also need to cooperate with the appropriate amount of calcium, magnesium, zinc,Currently the chestnut is mainly used in the root and foliar fertilizer two methods. Roots to base fertilizer and fast-acting fertilizer, foliar fertilizer is mainly trace elements and fast-acting fertilizer. After production practice, foliar spraying is to improve chestnut yield and quality of an effective fertilization technology.

Currently most areas in China in the planting of chestnut, according to the planting of chestnut region to points, a southern region and the northern region, due to the weather temperature point of view, the southern region of the chestnut fruit to be early maturity in the north of the chestnut maturity period.

Chestnuts are rich in vitamin E, 100g of chestnuts can provide 4.56mg of vitamin E, and rich in vitamin B1, B2 and other components and part of the vitamin A. Chestnuts are low-fat, calorie is not high, contains a certain amount of protein.