However, the fall in prices is a nightmare for farmers!
A vegetable farmer complained bitter: cauliflower, zucchini 20 cents to sell, lettuce a car 25 yuan, onions, tomatoes than miserable! What's going on?
01, cauliflower 2 gross sell
Since the beginning of May, many vegetables market is significantly lower, and cauliflower is one of them.
Despite the large market demand for cauliflower, but its production is greater, some growers said that this year, cauliflower maturity in advance, in May when the multi-province cauliflower listed in June is to enter the production period.
Because of low rainfall in the north this year, cauliflower is rarely affected by diseases and insects, its production is high, but behind the high yield is not high income, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places in the cauliflower appeared in the phenomenon of selling, the price is down to 2 cents a catty, but still can not be sold.
Traders said that the recent price of cauliflower continued to fall, but the hot weather, the growth rate is fast, in front of the market has not been digested, the back again on the market.
In order to reduce the risk, can only reduce the purchase, the result of the cauliflower market downturn, there is not much profit to speak of, many farmers are complaining of losses.
Some people ask, since the price of cauliflower is low, why farmers still sell it? In fact, today's high temperatures, the cauliflower itself can not hoard for too long, if not sold that can only rot in the ground, when farmers lose more.
The reason why the market for cauliflower is in the doldrums, mainly because of its large planting scale, its own production is high, coupled with the centralized listing, and thus the price is low.
02, zucchini loss sale
Zucchini as a seasonal vegetable, farmers almost every family will be planted, it is edible taste tender, and nutrition, loved by the market.
Plus zucchini resistance, high yield, easy to manage, it is much loved by farmers.
Only this year's zucchini market so that many farmers are not too happy, the original price of the ground can be sold 5-6 cents a catty, but now has fallen to 2 cents a catty, even if it is still not too good to sell, a lot of farmers can only sell at a loss.
In fact, zucchini prices are low for similar reasons and cauliflower, itself, its mu yield is high, and rising temperatures, fast growth, 2-3 days to pick a batch.
But around the planting area is relatively large, the market supply is sufficient, those buyers naturally also reduce the amount of procurement, so that the vegetable farmers in the hands of the zucchini is difficult to sell.
Even if the merchants come, will pick and choose, will be high-quality zucchini selected away, the rest of the farmers can only 20 cents to sell at a loss.
03, lettuce a car sold 25 yuan
From the recent CCTV report, Australia has fallen into a "lettuce shortage", KFC had to lettuce into cabbage.
And local lettuce prices have risen sharply, to 70 yuan per plant, showing how big the shortfall is.
Of course, this wave of "lettuce shortage" in Australia is mainly due to the flooding in the eastern part of the country.
However, in our country lettuce but the phenomenon of supply exceeds demand, Hebei Handan, a vegetable farmer, loaded a car full of 300 pounds of lettuce, only to sell 25 yuan, less than 10 cents a catty, mainly because of the oversupply of merchants are not willing to buy, vegetable farmers in order to sell can only bear the pain of selling.
The lettuce market downturn, in fact, is also planted area on the high side, coupled with the north ushered in a concentrated listing, and lettuce like heat, hot weather a few days to harvest a wave.
In the context of supply exceeds demand, vegetable farmers can only bear the pain of selling at low prices, otherwise lettuce storage period is short, will soon be bad.
04, onions fell to 30 cents
The first 2 years, the onion market is very low, vegetable farmers planted out difficult to sell.
Taking last year, just listed when the price of the ground can also be sold 60 cents a catty, but in early June has fallen to 3 cents a catty, vegetable farmers can only helpless to store it down, and so the market improves after the sale.
And this year, onions just listed, the loading price of 1.5 yuan per catty, many vegetable farmers are excited to think that the market improved this year.
Can not think, it has not been long, the onion price has fallen to 30 cents a catty, even so, it is difficult to sell.
In fact, the onion itself is a high yield, mu production of about 10,000 pounds, but in the past two years exported to Japan, South Korea, India and Pakistan is blocked, the result is a lot of backlog, can only be forced to transfer to the domestic market.
And onion is a small-scale vegetables, market demand is limited, excess supply prices naturally lower.
05, tomatoes than miserable
Last year in the fourth quarter, the tomato market can be said to be very considerable, due to rainfall in many places in the north, the main producing areas of tomato production is low, and the results of the ground purchase price of as much as 3-4 yuan a catty, which makes a lot of farmers to make a lot of money.
This year, I thought the market is still considerable, in May when the ground can also be sold for 1 yuan a catty, after June has gradually dropped to 80 cents, 60 cents, 5 cents a catty, which makes a lot of vegetable farmers motivation hit.
After all, the cost of tomato planting is high, and susceptible to disease, but now has fallen to 5-6 cents a catty, vegetable farmers can hardly accept.
But even so, we can only rush to sell, for fear that the tomatoes spoiled rotten.