Towel Gourd Fiber Products Began To Walk Into Common People'S Homes

Luffa is an annual herb of cucurbit. It was introduced from Southeast Asia to China in the Ming Dynasty. Nowadays, towel gourd has become a very common dish on the public dining table. The so-called loofah fiber is the netlike fibers that appear in the loofah after maturing and drying.

The use of our people Towel gourd fiber It has a long history. Ancient Chinese medical works such as "Chinese Materia Medica", "medicine and forestry compiling" and "materia medica renewed" in the Ming Dynasty were recorded. TCM generally believes that it has cooling blood, detoxification, and water. Dewetting And so on. Modern scientific research also found that Luffa tree contains xylan, mannan, galactan and so on. It has sedative, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. At present, with the continuous improvement of the living standard of our people, the demand for natural fibers is more intense. Towel gourd fiber, which has traditionally been used as a medicinal product in China, has also been made into various products and has entered the homes of ordinary people.

Old tune, towel gourd fiber products withered

In China's rural areas, especially in southern rural areas, there has been a tradition of using towel gourd fiber for washing dishes for a long time. In those days of material shortage, a good loofah network was used far more widely than today. Detergent It's even more comfortable. At that time, every house in front of the house, every autumn and winter, there were always several withered loofah on the withered loofah vine. If you think of such scenes, you can evoke some memories of that time.

After the reform and opening up, all kinds of detergents quickly occupied the vast urban and rural markets. Chemical detergent has brought convenience to people and environmental pollution, but also prompted towel gourd fiber to fade out of people's sight. Occasionally, in the remote countryside, the old man who is staggering is still drying in the sun.

"Gold always glitters," and the sudden fantasy of a migrant worker soon set off a big wave of towel gourd fiber in the whole country. In early 2007, Li Tao, a farmer in Sichuan Yingshan, who worked in Shenzhen, went home for the Spring Festival. This time, he was surprised to find that the hand-made loofah fiber insoles made by his relatives were very comfortable to wear. Moreover, the insoles made of towel gourd fiber are very good in permeability and can effectively eliminate peculiar smell.

At that time, making the towel gourd fiber insole was only a tradition of farmers in Yingshan County, and there was no scale. After most young people go out to work, some women who stay at home make some use of their spare time. Most of them are donated to relatives and friends, and there are really surplus to be sold on the market of three bad five times. Li Tao thought that such a good product might have a market, and bought a batch of Spring Festival to bring to Shenzhen.

What he did not expect was that about 1000 pairs of insoles were sold out quickly. In fact, towel gourd fiber insole can really overcome the disadvantages of cloth shoe mat, such as mildew, stiff leather, infirm, deformed, smelly, slippery and peculiar smell. All this made Li Tao feel the chance to come. After he commissioned his hometown relatives to check several batches of towel gourd fiber insoles to sell in Shenzhen, Li Tao resolutely resigned and decided to go home and run factories to produce towel gourd fiber insole products.

There are many uncertainties in the production time, quantity, color and quality of farmers. So Li Tao decided to buy the towel gourd fiber raw materials and let the workers make them in the factory. Sure enough, this method solves the problem of uniform product specification and general quality control. At the same time, although loofah fiber is in principle "old wine in new bottles", but stir fried is a new concept. Li Tao's towel gourd fiber insole has been well received in the market.

From the end of 2007, the production and sale of towel gourd fiber insoles began. By the end of 2008, Li Tao's sales revenue had exceeded 1 million yuan a year. This is not easy for a migrant worker who has just returned home to start a business, especially in Yingshan. As the business of towel gourd fiber insole is getting better and better, Li Tao has joined some other investors, and with the help of the government, he has developed a series of products such as towel towel, bath ball, washing bowl and so on.

Needless to say, the fate of Li Tao, an ordinary rural youth, has undergone fundamental changes with the development of towel gourd fiber products. Meanwhile, sales of towel gourd fiber products are increasing. Towel gourd fiber is also known and loved by more and more consumers. Therefore, more and more people began to pay attention to towel gourd fiber. This is nothing more than two kinds of people, the salesmen of towel gourd fiber products and the production enterprises that are ready to produce towel gourd fiber products. They found that natural beauty, new technology, health care products and other gimmicks can all be used on towel gourd fiber products.

As a result, "the rain is coming to the wind", the hype around the towel gourd fiber seems to be coming soon. The hot Carnival of the towel gourd fiber products market seems to be on the verge of fire.

Half cooked, loofah fiber raw materials are weak.

As we all know, Luffa is a very strong annual herb. Although the planting area is very wide in China, it is greatly affected by temperature and climate. Generally, it is planted in spring and harvested in summer and autumn. From the habit of habit, generally it is mainly fresh food. As a result, the towel gourd grown by farmers can really form the state of Luffa fiber which is naturally dry, and the amount of utilization is actually very limited.

Sichuan Yingshan county farmer Li Tao's towel gourd fiber product processing factory along with the production and sales volume unceasing expansion, soon encountered the raw material shortage bottleneck bottleneck. Shortly after the new year's day in 2009, his company was in a state of intermittent production due to the shortage of towel gourd fiber. After receiving a small batch of orders for shower products, Li Tao had to run around several counties, and the door to door acquisition only reluctantly completed the production task.

In order to solve the impact of raw material shortage of towel gourd on production as soon as possible, Li Tao took part in a part of his own land, and signed a planting agreement with the surrounding farmers. He quickly pieced together a production base of about 500 acres of hillside and half slope loofah. However, when Li Tao was not yet pleased with his achievements, one after another went on.

First of all, the market price of fresh Luffa is relatively high at the beginning. Therefore, most of the farmers who signed contracts with Li Tao have sold the sponge gourd quietly, earning some cash. In fact, this is also expected by Li Tao. Low income and low quality of peasants in mountainous areas are unavoidable to make small moves in the face of the readily available benefits. But what he did not expect was that in recent years, due to some other incompetent factors, loofah has not been able to enter the local market in bulk. At least, the price of fresh towel gourd is slightly higher than that of previous years. The continuous picking of farmers directly affected the recovery of Li Tao towel gourd fiber, which led to the acquisition time of towel gourd fiber about 2 months later than expected.

Secondly, in order to save limited fertile fields, loofah cultivation should be based on sloping land and semi slope land. This is not very common, but drought or other climatic disasters occur. Limited water sources will only tilt towards grain crops, so the large-scale cultivation of towel gourd is vulnerable to natural disasters.

Moreover, the farmers who signed contracts with Li Tao continuously sell fresh loofah. We set aside the objective factors of the high price of towel gourd, so we need to keep at least 40 to 45 days for the production of towel gourd fiber. In this way, the fruit and fruit rate of towel gourd was affected, and the output of Luffa fiber was small. After the natural drying, the quality of the towel gourd was light, and the real interests of farmers were affected.

Although Li Tao and the surrounding farmers signed an agreement on planting, the agreement is more moral than practical. Even if the last peasant households default, can the processing enterprises take advantage of this agreement to recover their interests through legal means? Let alone that most farmers do not have the ability to compensate, even if they want to get this compensation, it is a long drawn out and thankless task. This is also the most difficult problem that our fiber material processing enterprises encounter in breeding breeding base. The low price of the market is sold to the processing enterprise that signs the agreement, and the market price is high enough to sell on its own. This is a question of the quality of the farmers, but it also affects the production and operation of the processing enterprises.

Therefore, in fact, in the whole year of 2009, Li Tao still failed to solve the problem of raw material supply of towel gourd fiber in his factory. In fact, the towel gourd fiber processing enterprises across the country face almost the same problems. It is true that some people in some areas may have solved this problem. But for the whole country, the situation of supply and demand tension of towel gourd fiber is still objective, and will become a bottleneck problem restricting the development of towel gourd fiber industry for a long time in the future.

Counterfeiting and counterfeiting

The shortage of raw materials, the excellent sales situation of products, and the aggressive publicity campaign, these factors will surely bring a very good breeding ground for fake and shoddy products. As soon as an ordinary consumer hears the towel gourd fiber products, he may unconsciously associate the withered loofah on the vine. But in fact, after picking up the loofah, they should be concentrated on washing, bleaching, leveling, shaping and so on. After processing, the loofah fiber is quite different from what it was. Therefore, it is almost impossible for ordinary consumers to distinguish the true and false fibers of loofah through naked eyes.

In fact, the price of towel gourd fiber raw materials is not particularly expensive. Compared with other natural fibers such as silk, the price of towel gourd fiber is still on the low side. However, due to a series of specific problems encountered in the production of raw materials, the supply of the whole market is very inadequate.

At the same time, loofah fiber has the function of dredging meridians, activating blood circulation, clearing heat and detoxifying. Towel gourd fiber products, especially washing products, have won the recognition of consumers and even sought after. Therefore, the contradiction between supply and demand objectively exists and driven by huge market interests. Some towel gourd fiber products enterprises began to add some other fillers such as chemical fiber in the products, and chase the high profits of them. The market share of filler 100%, using towel gourd fiber, is in fact rare and very limited.

At present, the towel gourd fiber towel that is sold on the market, the washing bowl handkerchief, or the shoe pad are also known. And some small factories or workshops produce a large number of loofah products. At the same time, the proportion of towel gourd fiber is still relatively small in domestic production or market share, and no industry standard for towel gourd fiber has been introduced. Thus, in such a blind area of law and regulations, consumers are difficult to identify. Towel gourd fiber products market can be described as mixed, true and false.

However, for the natural fiber of towel gourd, it can be salvaged again from the long river of history. And spare no effort in its processing and transformation, so that it can bring new vitality to life. It is a thankful and proud thing to say. In the current atmosphere of vigorously advocating sustainable development, every increase in the vast natural fiber family can be said to be a great progress of mankind.

It is true that the current industry and market of loofah fiber are very young or even naive, and there are still such problems. But as long as we gradually improve the upstream and downstream sectors of the industry, we can solve a bottleneck that restricts the progress of the industry.

Taking the quality of towel gourd fiber as the basis, formulating and improving industry regulations. I believe that one day, towel gourd fiber can also stand proudly in the forest of the natural fiber family. It is used by us to contribute to the development of mankind.