Monday, February 21, 2022

Struggling fruit farmers in China

 According to the statistics of Zhuochuang Data, as of February 10, 2022, the current storage capacity of the national cold storage is about 7.1928 million tons, and the reduction of the national cold storage is about 26.40 in two weeks (the Spring Festival holiday is involved in the middle, and the two-week combined statistics 0127-0209). 10,000 tons, the destocking rate of cold storage is about 21.05%. Compared with the few weeks before the Spring Festival, the shipping speed has dropped significantly. After the Spring Festival, the replenishment volume of customers in the market is far less than last year, and about 557,300 tons were shipped out of the warehouse in two weeks last year. The remaining 9.7235 million tons in the same period last year (as of February 11, 2021), the inventory is much smaller than last year.

Struggling fruit farmers

Unsold fruit

In recent years, with the increase in the area of ​​orchards, the output has increased, resulting in a serious decline in prices, increasing production but not increasing income. Especially last year, due to the severe frost, the quality of apples declined, the rate of high-quality fruit was low, and the income of fruit farmers decreased, and many people lost money. As a result, the number of felled trees will increase, and the number of people who give up management will also increase. Xing many years later, the price of apples will rebound, I really don't know when this situation will appear.


Apple is worthless, what does it mean, it's time for an update. If the market is not good, orchards will choose to cut down trees, especially some orchards that are not popular with consumers and are poorly managed, such as closed orchards and lack of organic fertilizer inputs. Some varieties are aging and need to be eliminated.

Recently, an farmer in Guilin, Guangxi encountered a very sad thing for him. This year, he had a bumper harvest of his own sand candy oranges, but he couldn't be happy. He wanted to sell them at a good price. How could he know that such a thing would happen.

It turned out that on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the fruit merchant transported the baskets to the farmer's house and asked him to put the sugar oranges under the tree and put them in the baskets. Unexpectedly, the fruit merchant didn't show up to pick them up after harvesting. The farmer was in a hurry and contacted the fruit merchant by phone. But there is no way to ship them, even the baskets and the deposit are not needed.

Anyone who has eaten sugar oranges knows that this kind of oranges cannot be tolerated, and they are easy to spoil. The farmer can only watch the oranges slowly rot at home.

It’s really hard for a fruit farmer. After a year of hard work, it’s hard to wait until the fruit is harvested. One year’s living expenses depend on this orange, but it’s rotten at home. It’s hard to think about it!

I am also from a rural area. Rock sugar oranges are grown on a large scale in the countryside of our county. I remember that in the year when the epidemic broke out, our county had a bumper harvest of oranges. At the beginning, the faces of the fruit farmers were filled with joy of the bumper harvest.

How did you know that the epidemic broke out suddenly, and soon Wuhan was closed, and that would be the time to sell oranges. Due to the epidemic, many fruit merchants did not come in previous years, and the sales of rock sugar oranges were slow.

Those who are lucky will sell it for 0.30-0.40 yuan/catties, and if you count labor costs, fertilizers and pesticides, you will lose money at all. Some people's oranges go directly to the rotten tree without anyone asking.

Now that I think about it, I feel very uncomfortable. That is the hope and hard work of the fruit farmers for a year!

Some netizens do not understand and say that in the age of Internet development, they still depended on fruit merchants. Friends who don't grow fruits must not know the market. The price sold to fruit dealers is higher than the price of e-commerce.

Some netizens are right, what is the return of one year of hard work and one year of investment? Rural people rely on the sky for food and the market to make money. Even if you grow the best products, you can't make money without good sales channels.

The decline of the fruit industry is accelerating. Since the year before last, people's enthusiasm for contracting fruit trees suddenly disappeared. Many people's fruit trees are given away without being planted. Because the price of pears is too low and the investment is too large, what is even worse is that the wages of labor are too high and no workers can be found.

What happened to the domestic fruit industry?

1. The small-scale peasant economy is not suitable for large-scale modern agricultural production, and the efficiency is too low, and it is inevitable to be eliminated. It is necessary to transfer land and conduct intensive management.

2. The process of urbanization and industrialization has been accelerated, and a large number of rural people have moved into cities. There is a serious shortage of agricultural labor.

3. Industrialization requires more workers, and the income from labor far exceeds that of agriculture. Nowadays, not only young people are favored in the city, but middle-aged and elderly people can also find jobs in the city.

4. the fruit yield is too large and the quality is too low, so it is not competitive, and the varieties must be improved.

5. The state focuses on industry, urges the transfer of agricultural land, and enjoys its success. Cutting down trees and shaving trees has become inevitable.

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