Photo shows that villagers from Zayul Rongme Town, Zayul County are looking at greenhouse planted dendrobium officinale. [Photo/Tsewang]

Dendrobium Candidum is a orchidaceae aerophyte with slow growth and lower natural propagation rate, and it has very high medicinal value called as “Gold in Herbs”. Zayul Rongme Town, Zayul County, Nyingchi introduced Dendrobium Candidum successfully, making the industrial structure shifting from traditional planting industry to high value-added industry. It is reported that the planting project of Dendrobium Candidum shall rely mainly on standardized greenhouse planting and promote the trial patterns of “a combination of farmer cooperative and farmer household”.