On May 8, the marigold plant technical training on-site meeting was held in Xie Wan Town of Luo Nan County, Shanxi province. Xi'an Huarui Bioengineering Co., Ltd. invited experts to explain the technical points of planting marigold to all the marigold growers in Luo Nan County, so as to ensure that thousands of acres’ marigolds have been planted well in this county.

Marigold is Asteraceae, a kind of herbaceous plant. Its flower is the main raw material of natural lutein. Lutein is used very extensively, and can be used for feed additives, food colorants, pharmaceuticals and health products industries. It is mainly exported to Mexico, Europe  the United States, Southeast Asia and other countries.

As more and more people focus on food safety and life quality gets better and better,  the public throughout the world, including manufacturers and consumers, have taken increasing concern with the natural pigment.
Marigold Project has developed and popularized in a large-scale in a short time since it was introduced by Shandong enterprises in the early 1990s.Some provinces have conducted large scale of plantation of marigold including Shandong, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Xinjiang and Gansu etc. According to rough statistics, China's marigold planting area has reached 600,000 acres or so.

An agreement has been signed with respect to purchase of flowers by and between the People’s government of Luo Nan County and Xi'an Huarui Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. According to this agreement, the Luonan County will first plant 1,330 acres of marigolds in its six towns such as Luo Yuan town and Bao An town etc. Huarui Company has also nurtured the same planting area of saplings, and its seedlings have been grown.

Source:Herbridge Media