When did Yalong dried lotus root starch start?

The planting and processing industry of dried lotus root in Yalong Township of Dahua Yao Autonomous County has a long history. The processed lotus root starch has excellent silk quality, white color and delicious taste, and is favored by merchants. Products are sold inside and outside the region. It has become a fist industry in Yalong township, and many farmers have become rich by it. Yalong Township, located in Dashi Mountain area, has short light time and bad natural conditions, and ten droughts and nine disasters have greatly affected agricultural production. The township party committee and government implemented the strategy of "adjusting the industrial structure according to local conditions", while doing a good job in grain production, further developed the fist industry of dried lotus root planting and processing, and mobilized the masses to take the road of comprehensive agricultural development. Interplanting and interplanting dry lotus root in spring corn field.

Lotus root starch is a snack, which is divided into red lotus root starch, pure lotus root starch and rock sugar lotus root starch. When making lotus root starch, we should pay attention to: fresh and old lotus root is suitable, and the finer the lotus root pulp, the better, because the finer the grinding, the higher the flour yield. Traditional production only uses mature lotus root as raw material, which is processed by strict traditional techniques such as lotus root selection, grinding, precipitation, conditioning and knife cutting, without any chemical treatment and without changing the inherent physical and chemical characteristics of starch. Therefore, it is called "ancient pure lotus root starch".