Hubei Huagui (NATRICH) Food Co., Ltd is a modern agricultural industrialization enterprise integrating aquatic vegetable planting, research and development, processing, storage, transportation, and sales. The company was established in June 2006, specializing in aquatic vegetables quality breeding, promotion, demonstration; In June 2012, 0.13 square kilometers of land was acquired in Wanquan Industrial Park of Honghu City, engaged in the processing of lotus root and other agricultural products, known as "the factory of the field, the enterprise at the farmer's door". In November 2015, the group was established with four subsidiaries, including Hubei Huagui Beverage Co., Ltd which possess a total of 1380 employees and an annual processing of nearly 100,000 tons of agricultural products which creates output value nearly 1.8 billion yuan. It is a national key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization, a high-tech enterprise, a national enterprise abiding by contract and honoring credit, and a national pilot enterprise of supply chain innovation and application.
The company has been committed to the "co-creation, sharing" development concept. Through supply chain innovation, exploring industry collaborations from up to down, the effective ways to achieve green development, actively implementing the "company + cooperative + base + farmer" development mode, comprehensive applying the ecological farming of "lotus root, fish, shrimp", to provide own developed breeding for lotus root, developing standardized cultivation and production, procurement for all agricultural raw products at protective price. Leading the establishment of 30 specialized cooperatives for aquatic vegetable cultivation, developed a planting area of more than 130 square kilometers, drove farmers to generate income of about 8,000 yuan per 665 square meters, a small lotus root belt soon drove more than 10,000 farmers in Honghu including the surrounding 10 counties and cities to work, which provides the ability for them to overcome property.