Cultivation of Wolfberries in China

The majority of commercially produced wolfberries come from the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of north-central China and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China, where they are grown on plantations. In Zhongning County, Ningxia, wolfberry plantations typically range between 100 and 1000 acres in area. The reputation of wolfberries from Ningxia, where they grow abundantly along the fertile aggradational floodplains of the Yellow River, is widespread throughout Asia. Government releases of annual wolfberry production, premium fruit grades, and export are based on yields from Ningxia, the region recognized with: The largest annual harvest in China in Ningxia province, accounting for 43% (14 million kg, 2006) of the nation's total yield of wolfberries estimated at approximately 34 million kg. In addition, commercial volumes of wolfberries grow in the Chinese regions of Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Shaanxi.