Ningxia goji berry cultivation history has been for thousands of years. Here sunny, effective accumulated temperature is high, the temperature difference between day and night, It is located in Liupan Mountain and the Yellow River junction, where the soil is alluvial soil torrents, extremely rich in mineral content. Here humus-rich, high ripening, irrigation facilities, unique water quality. It is this unique geographical environment and small regional climate, provide the most superior natural environment for the goji berry growth. Making Ningxia become the birthplace of Chinese goji berry.Therefore, Ningxia is also known as the “World Goji berry town”.
Ningxia goji berry has the characteristics of large size, bright color, thin peel, flesh thick, taste pure, sweet and refreshing. Has the best quality of similar products in China. Is the only one goji berry variety that is loaded into the new Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Ming Li, written in the “compendium of Materia Medica” records: Spring picking Goji leaves, called sun fine grass; summer picking flowers, known as longevity grass; autumn harvest fruit, called Goji berry; winter mining roots, called Digupi.
According to historical records, Ningxia goji berry first natural reproduction in Changle fort , Yongkang fort, Xuanhe fort etc. on the Yellow River, and later through improved by generations of breeding. Later, people have succeeded in cultivating a lot of excellent varieties of Chinese goji berry, and gradually introduced to other parts of china. Today, more than twenty provinces in China and Europe, Mediterranean countries, North America, Eastern Europe and other places planted goji berry, whose ancestors are mostly “Ningxia goji berry”.
Although goji berry has been across the country, however, with the exception of Ningxia goji berry is most famous, known as the best Chinese goji berry, the fundamental reason is here the day favorable terrain, and the farmer’s intensive cultivation.
