What is barley

Barley is a cereal crop, due to its internal and external glumes are separated, the seeds are exposed, so it is also known as naked barley, yuan wheat, rice barley.

Many people travel to the Tibetan region, see the local residents to eat barley noodles, because the plains do not have this plant, they want to know, barley is what plants, let's go together to understand it.

Barley is mainly produced in Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places in China, is the main food of the Tibetan people. Barley planted on the Tibetan Plateau has a history of about 3500 years, from the material culture to extend to the field of spiritual culture, on the Tibetan Plateau has formed a rich connotation, rich in national characteristics of the barley culture. Has a wide range of medicinal as well as nutritional value, has launched a barley noodles, barley steamed bread, barley nutritional powder and other barley products. Barley is the main ingredient of tsampa, the first of the four treasures of Tibet.

Barley is a very important plateau cereal crops, cold hardiness, short growing period, high yield and early maturity, wide adaptability. Barley is particularly cold-hardy crops, is the main food crop in the alpine agricultural area of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a year. At an altitude of 4500 meters above the local high altitude alpine zone, in the depths of the vast grasslands, naked barley is the only crop that can mature normally, is the valley, the lake basin planted important food crops.

Green tree is a highly adaptable crop, cold and barren adaptability. It is generally sown from March to May and harvested from July to September, so it is known as spring naked barley in the history of cultivation. The general production period is 100 to 130 days, and the seedling stage can withstand low temperatures of about -10℃. Flowering period at 9 ℃ does not cause damage. Milk ripening can still withstand low temperatures of -1°C. In the warmest month the average temperature is close to 10 ℃, the average daily temperature is higher than 5 ℃ of the continuation of the number of days of only 120 days in the alpine region, the green tree can still be normal growth and development, and become the Tibetan Plateau, a year a year of alpine valleys planted a landmark crop.

In hundreds of years of history, barley is only in the brewing and grinding tsampa on the use. Tsampa is, in fact, barley fried noodles. Tsampa is the staple food of Tibetans, and Tibetans have tsampa for three meals a day. Tsampa is rich in nutrients, nutritional value than rice, corn and wheat in general is also high, caloric value, hunger and cold. Tsampa easy to carry, suitable for pastoral life. Barley can also be made into cereal porridge, rice flowers, bread and buns or flour made of pastries and other food.

Barley is a good feed crop, nutrient-rich, good feeding quality, it is second only to corn in the status of grain feed, with barley as pig feed can be fat hardness, lean meat, good quality results, barley straw is soft, rich in nutrients, cattle, sheep, rabbits and other grass-feeding livestock, high-quality fodder, but also alpine shady and wet areas of the winter livestock of the main forage.