苧麻原产我国,迄今已有三千多年栽培历史,农民經驗非常丰富,农家品种丰富多采,优良品种传遍了几乎整个亚洲国家和大部分欧洲国家。我国苧麻单位面积产量之高、麻园寿命之长,在全世界是少有的。我国农民这些长久积累下来的成功經驗,必須很好地总結分析,使它进一步促进生产。作者近三年来历經湖南、湖北、江西、广东、广西、江苏、浙江、安徽等省(区)主要产麻区总結大面积丰产栽培經驗,农民一致强調:“冬季培蔸,春夏掌握以肥水为中心的 Ramie originated in China, so far, it has been cultivated for more than 3000 years. Farmers have very rich experience and rich variety of farm products. The fine varieties have spread to almost the entire Asian countries and most European countries. China’s ramie yield per unit area, Ma Yuan’s long life, is rare in the world. These long-established successes that our peasants have accumulated must be well summarized and analyzed so that it can further promote production. In the past three years, the author summed up the experience of large-scale high-yielding cultivation in the main producing areas of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. The peasants unanimously emphasized: "Cultivation in winter, Master fertilizer and water as the center