Diqing prinsepia oil hits int’l market

10,000 plus yuan's worth of prinsepia utilis rogle oil made in northwest Yunnan’s Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was exported to the oversea market via Shangri-La Customs.

Cultivation of the prinsepia utilis rogle has developed into an agro-business in Diqing over the years. And this export marks the beginning of the prefecture’s edible oil to hit the international market.

Allegedly discovered by Dr. Joseph Rock, a famous Austrian-American botanist, in his 27-year exploration in northwest Yunnan, Prinsepia utilis Royle is a wild oil shrub native to Diqing and its surrounding Himalayan regions.

Source: Yunnan Net; Reporting by Liu Ziyu and He Suji; Trans-editing by Li Jingshuo