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To date back the history of planting fennel in Xi’an town, Haiyuan County, it had to start from the sixties and seventies of last century, At that time when people's were in people’s commune, a farmer called Lirong in Yuanhe Village, Xi'an town, use his private plots to plant a little fennel with vegetables, after the harvesting moon, he sold the fennel at a price of 0.4 yuan per kilogram to the Haiyuan county supply and marketing cooperation and receive an income of 40 yuan. At that time, 40 yuan was undoubtedly an astronomical figure for the local farmers.

It is driven by the interests, Wang Zhankui also followed Lirong to plant small fennel in his private plots.
It’s precisely began from that, the plant of small fennel in Xi'an town increased from two points, four points to half an acre.

The small fennel produced in Haiyuan County was with beautiful color, pure taste and superior nature, which was honored as the superior seasoning. Along with the unceasing improvement of living standard, the city and countryside residents and especially those in economy developed area are getting bigger and bigger demand for small fennel and the high quality small fennel was quite in people's favor. The Haiyuan county party committee and the government take the fennel planting as the superior characteristic industry of our county to carry on the key development, through the policy guidance, fund support and market led; it enables the considerable development of fennel planting in our county. At present, the total area for fennel planting reached 57,000 Chinese acres and become a new luminescent spot of the local rural economy and the farmer additional income.

The fennel can both used as traditional Chinese medicine and seasoning. Its period of duration is long, with characterThe fennel in Haiyuan County was firstly spontaneously produced in farmer’s garden, as the fast development of market economy, the fennel went out of the garden gradually and formed a production bases with the Xi’an town as its center, radiating to Shutai, Guanqiao, Shidian, caiwa and so onistics of drought resistance and salt alkaloid resistance, fewer investment and relatively high benefit. The fennel is the first choice plant in salt alkaloid sandy soil region and the ditch dam sand river basin. .

Two years ago, the annual income was less than 1000 yuan, now it has surpassed 4000 yuan, and the family had brick red tile-roofed house, new style motorcycle, large screen color television and so on. All this achievement must give credit to the 15 Chinese acres of fennel which Cheng Kexin plants. The Xi'an basin is the main production base of fennel in Haiyuan County. In order to display the resources superiority fully, increase the farmers' income, the Xi’an Town carried out investigation and studies thoroughly and determined to establish the fennel base with the Yuanhe Village as a center. At the same time, the government also established the fennel sales connecting station and posted sales message through the county government’s website to expand the marketing channel diligently. Through developing markets and making brand, this fennel's popularity was enhanced rapidly and sells in distant markets places such as Guangdong, Anhui, Shanxi, Gansu. This year, 5800 people in 1120 household in the five administrative village of Xi’an towns planted 20,500 Chinese acres of fennel, estimated that the ultimate output may amount to 3,100,000 kilograms, the sales revenue may amount to 16,000,000 Yuan and the per capita income may amount to more than 2700 Yuan.