On 6 September, the autumn sun shines high. Thousands of acres of sesame in the Shilixiang Sesame Ecological Park showed a harvest scene. Because there are early and late planting and different varieties, some plots of sesame plants are already dark brown, sesame pods are ripe, the top of the slightly cracked, you can see full of white sesame seeds; some plots of sesame plants are still green, sesame leaves but most of the shedding, sesame stalks clustered with a multitude of green sesame pods.

Being busy in the base of the workers Zhang Yuejun said, he a few days ago to feel the highest sesame pulled down, measured, 2.6 metres high, than 2.26 metres Yao Ming is still 34 centimetres high. In the general more than 2 metres high sesame, to find out such a high one, not surprising at all. ‘The sesame seeds in the past, can grow to one person high is very good.’ He said.

The reporter randomly found two sesame, from the bottom, one by one, count the sesame pods, a knot of 139, a knot of 160. Meng Weiguo, general manager of Ten Mile Company, pulled one out of the ground and counted 175 pods.

‘After the sesame seeds were planted this year, the growth process was smooth and windy.’ Meng Weiguo said, ‘We looked at a few sesame fields, mu yield of dry sesame is estimated to reach 400 kg, this yield is too satisfactory.’ In order to improve the soil, improve the quality of sesame, base year after year a large number of organic fertiliser, this year the amount of organic fertilizer per acre is up to 3 tons.

  In addition, the base of sesame from ploughing to harvesting, has now been fully mechanised.

  In the production workshop of the company, a huge stone mill slowly rotating, a strong flavour of sesame oil filled the workshop. In the modern workshop, only a few workers can be seen.

   With ‘China's good grain and oil’ ‘Shandong key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialisation’ and many other reputation of the Shilixiang company, the earliest is just a small workshop. 1996, 21-year-old Qingyun County Qingyun Town, Shifosi village villagers Ren Changbo retired from the army, to Wudi County, rented a very small house, relying on the family heirlooms, and the company is now a small workshop, and the company is still in operation. A very small house, relying on the family craft to open incense and oil workshop. From the beginning of the workshop, the development of modern enterprises, Ren Changbo rely on good products, rely on honesty and trustworthiness.

With the development and growth of the company, in order to ensure the quality of raw materials, Ten Mile Company began to build a sesame planting base in 2010, as a demonstration to drive the surrounding farmers to plant sesame. ‘Relative to other crops, sesame is not high on soil requirements, saline and alkali resistance, very suitable for planting in Wudi, and we grow sesame here, after the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Oil Crops Research Institute test, sesamin content is very high, with which to make the aroma of the aroma of the oil is richer. We cooperate with scientific research institutes to cultivate a drought-resistant, saline-resistant new varieties of sesame, can be planted in moderate saline land.’ Meng Weiguo said.

By now, Shilixiang has developed a 3,000-acre self-built sesame planting base, driving farmers in Wudi County to plant orders for more than 20,000 acres of sesame. Local farmers for the Shilika planted order sesame, divided into spring sowing, summer sowing two kinds. Spring sowing sesame acre yield of about 340 pounds, the total cost of planting about 200 yuan, the company purchased at a price of 8 yuan per catty; summer sowing is harvested wheat and then planted sesame, due to the short growing period, the acre yield of about 200 pounds, the quality is not as good as the spring sowing, the purchase price of 7 yuan per catty.

‘The essence of small milled sesame oil lies in the stone milling process.’ Meng Weiguo said. Shilixiang company to make fragrant oil, using the stone grinding process of water generation method. The stone mill chosen by the company has the advantage of long grinding without heating, low temperature, low speed, the process temperature of 60 ~ 65 ℃, can maximise the retention of sesame oil in the aromatic flavour substances and functional nutrients. The water substitution method is to pour hot water into the ground sesame pulp, and through stirring, let the lighter aromatic oil float up to achieve the method of replacing the oil with water. Of course, both stone grinding and water substitution are now modernised and intelligent.

Relying on the modernisation of traditional craftsmanship, this company now has three series and more than 50 kinds of products, of which the annual output of sesame oil and sesame paste can reach 3200 tonnes and 2000 tonnes respectively; the company has more than 600 agents across the country, and has achieved cooperation with more than 3000 catering chains, and its products are exported to 56 countries and regions.