KONJAC PLANT

Flower konjac is mostly distributed in areas with an altitude of 800-2500 meters. Flower konjac has strong adaptability and high yield. The weight of a single taro corm for one year is 0.5-2.5 kg, and the weight of a single taro corm for two years or more can reach 15-20 kg.

Konjac has a cold nature, a pungent taste, and toxic alkaloids. It has functions such as clearing the intestines, diuresis, reducing swelling and nodules, detoxifying and relieving pain.

Konjac tubers are rich in starch, protein, fat, glucomannan, reducing sugars, highly active konjac cellulose, ash, moisture, various vitamins, and alkaloids. It contains 17 types of amino acids, including 9 essential amino acids for the human body and 7 unsaturated amino acids. Meanwhile, glucomannan can regulate the nutritional balance in the human body, reduce cardiovascular and digestive diseases, and have good auxiliary therapeutic effects on some cancers, especially colon cancer.

Highly active konjac cellulose can reduce lipids in the human blood, eliminate harmful heavy metals such as lead, and can be used as a specialized food for occupational diseases caused by working in heavy metal environments. Therefore, konjac food is known as the "cleaner" of the human digestive system. It is an ideal health food for middle-aged and elderly people.

Huangkonjac

It is mainly distributed along the China Myanmar Thailand border and in Indonesia, without artificial cultivation and has always been in a wild state.                 

In 2008, Xishuangbanna introduced high-quality varieties of pearl konjac and arranged them for planting experiments and research in different areas such as small rivers at an altitude of 500 meters and rubber forests at an altitude of 800 meters. Pearl konjac showed good growth characteristics and advantages in production:

One reason is that the plant is tall and has multiple leaves. After the emergence of Zhuya yellow konjac, the phenomenon of multiple seedlings forming the same body and one plant having multiple leaves is common, with up to 4 or 5 leaves, and the total leaf area is several times that of other varieties. In addition, the seedling stage of the plant is in mid to late November, which is later and has a longer growth period;                 

Secondly, it is suitable for high temperature and high humidity environments and has strong disease resistance. Good resistance to high temperature and humid weather in summer, with almost no diseases such as soft rot and white silk, reducing the risk of large-scale cultivation of konjac;                 

This variety produces 1000-3700kg per mu in low mountain areas, with a weight gain coefficient of 3.5-22.13 and a reproduction coefficient of 1.05-12.00; Its disease resistance and heat resistance are superior to those of mainland konjac.

The introduction of this variety provides a new suitable variety for konjac cultivation in low altitude areas and opens up new space for the development of konjac industry.