TCM harvesting in East China

In Anhui province's Bozhou, also known as the "City of Traditional Chinese medicine", more than 66,700 hectares of land is used to grow raw material of TCM with over a million people employed in related industries and more than $3.2 billion in annual TCM trade.
 
Currently, the raw material of TCM "Baizhi", or angelic root, is being harvested. Farmers have to work fast to harvest, sun dry and process the angelica root in order to turn the raw material into finished product and then turn that into profit.

TCM farmers harvest Baizhi in a village in Bozhou, Anhui province, July 21, 2014. [Photo/CFP]

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