Areca carcinogenic rumor and the rumor, dragged out a huge industrial chain for areca. The upper reaches of Hainan province is the 2 million 300 thousand areca farmers, in the middle reaches of the employment problem in Hunan province areca processing industry value of nearly 10 billion yuan and about 400000 people, while areca's professional sales team scale is expanding, extended to the whole country.
There are about 1 billion areca users in the world, mainly in India, Taiwan and Hunan.
“ hundreds of years ago, Xiangtan had a plague, areca has a preventive effect, so the first place in Xiangtan to eat areca. The weather in Hunan is cold, but the areca is hot, like drinking. Areca also has a social function, we meet like a smoke, you respect me, I respect you. At the wedding banquet, the smoke and areca were all made together. ” Miss Huang in Hunan, Xiangtan.
At present, there are tens of thousands of areca consumers in Hunan alone. Areca is being consumed by more and more people, and the industry is developing rapidly.
Areca manufacturing industry appeared only 20 years, the last 10 years is the golden period of development. From the first knife, a basin, a chopping board composed of shop like “ &rdquo, until now the stragglers and disbanded soldiers; the scale of more than 50 enterprises, annual processing capacity of 200 thousand tons, the annual output value of nearly 10 billion yuan of the leading food processing industry.
In this process, there are companies up and down. Different from the tobacco industry, areca industry is a fully competitive field, continue to attract private capital to enter, the competition is very cruel.