At present, there are excellent varieties of prickly prickly ash, such as Dahongpao, JiuJulia, Erhongpao and Baisha pepper, which have high market recognition. Thornless Zanthoxylum bungeanum is only available in recent years. It is a variety of Zanthoxylum bungeanum that grows without thorns after several grafting. The advantage is that the manual picking cost of pepper can be effectively reduced. No goods have been seen in the market, and the quality is unknown.
The qualitative identification of excellent crop varieties includes several stages, such as cultivation, trial planting, quality identification and growth stability. All this will take years or even longer. The market recognition of crop commodities also needs consumers to spend and recognize for a long time before it can be established.
It will take several years for us to develop pepper planting, from planting to fruiting. We must consider risks and costs, including labor costs, capital costs and time costs. In this respect, I personally suggest planting fine varieties with thorns with high market recognition. Doing so is nothing more than the size of profit, and the risk is relatively small.
At present, the best variety belongs to Dahongpao (Fengjiao) in Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province.
Excellent quality in all aspects, and high price. This year, a catty of fresh pepper 15- 18 yuan, and a catty of dried pepper 80 yuan.
Picking prickly ash trees is very troublesome. Picking a catty of fresh pepper 3-4 yuan, 4-5 jins dry a catty, the picking cost needs 15-20 yuan. Many people are scared of thorns, but there are still many people who come to pick prickly ash. It's summer vacation, and I will pick pepper if I have nothing to do at home. I'm one of them.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a new variety in recent years, and it has been popularized at present. However, it is not possible to pursue non-stinging, and the quality and yield must be guaranteed. Zanthoxylum bungeanum with thorns has the characteristics of resistance to pests and diseases. As long as prickly pepper can achieve the characteristics of pest resistance, excellent quality and high yield of prickly pepper, prickly pepper is still directly popularized.
At present, the best quality and benefit of prickly pepper is Fengjiao, and the yield per mu exceeds 10,000 yuan. Although picking is troublesome and costly, there is still a certain profit. The quality and yield of prickly pepper need to be verified. Last year, I visited the experimental station of prickly pepper in Fengxian County, where the "prickly pepper in Xinong" was still in the experimental stage. According to the introduction, there were not many fruits in the first two or three years, and the yield began to rise five years later, but there is still a lot of work to be done to promote it as a variety. Since last year, pricklless pepper has been hyped everywhere, and the seedlings are very expensive. I hope that friends who plant pepper will seriously consider it.