The national price is 4.8 yuan, and the Tanghe price is 5.2 yuan.
Although it is worth the off-season, the endless stream of purchasing cars is still spectacular. In the context of the continuous decline of the small pepper market, such a trading situation is very rare.
A strange price phenomenon has attracted the author's attention. Zhu Shuming, president of the Pepper Association in Yuantan Town, where Pepper City is located, said: "Now the price of pepper has entered the lowest period. The national average price is 4.8 yuan/kg, and here we are 5.2 yuan/kg, which is higher than the average price of 0.4 yuan. In such a low sales season, it is normal for the price to be too low. "
Is the price of pepper in Tanghe really higher than the national average and affects the market prices in various places? Yan Jian, a buyer from Guilin, Guangxi, confirmed: "I have traveled all over the country, and the price of Tanghe is a little high, but we still chose here because the quality of peppers here is the best, the distance is short, and the freight is low, which is very cost-effective."
The super competition of Tanghe pepper is not entirely based on regional advantages, but on the charm within the industry.
Change the variety and add hundreds of dollars.
Farmers in Tanghe always have a tradition of planting pepper, but because of the serious continuous cropping and variety degradation for a long time, the quality and benefit have been discounted, and the county has started the "grafting" project of improved varieties accordingly.
1997, relying on China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, they introduced the world famous Japanese Tochigi "Three Sakura Pepper" and successfully planted it on a large scale, with an average benefit of 2,000 yuan per mu. However, with the change of market and the change of demand direction, various special peppers have appeared one after another, showing great development prospects. The county began to adjust the crop layout and implement diversified planting.
The county has established a 500-mu pepper introduction test center in Yuantan Town, and selected seven new varieties, such as "New Generation" and "Bullet", which are suitable for local soil conditions and climate characteristics and have great potential for income increase.
Party Yuan Zeng, a farmer in Dangpo Village, is particularly happy for this: "I plant 4 mu of' new generation' peppers a year, and I earned 2,000 pieces in the past mu, but now I can earn 2,500 to 3,000 pieces."
From the variety change to the popularization of pollution-free technology, Tanghe pepper industry has been crowned with the title of "quality type"
Standardized procedures Chili peppers go up in price
Walking in the pepper planting base, it can be seen that permanent signs of standardized production procedures for peppers stand in the fields, and pepper farmers follow the "plan", standardize operations, and production activities are in full swing.
In Yuantan Town, just ask a pepper farmer, and you can clearly tell which fertilizers can't be used, which pesticides can't be used, and what problems should be dealt with. The widely praised pepper fields are full of green ideas.
In tanghe county, every production base has a contractor cadre, and every pepper field has a full-time technician. Within the pepper industry, the popularization rate of pollution-free technology reached 100%, and it was awarded the national pollution-free pepper production base by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Standardized production of the best pepper with uniform head, thin skin and fresh color, pure spicy taste and saturated pigment quickly established the market within two years, and thus appeared a "premium price" higher than the national price level.
Build a trading city and turn the market into a depression
An important support for the emergence of "Tanghe price" is the rise of Central Plains Chili City.
In order to jump out of the strange circle that there is no market for production, and cheap peppers hurt farmers, Tanghe and Baode Real Estate Development Company of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province jointly invested to build the Central Plains Pepper City.
The construction of pepper city has become the biggest channel for the local pepper industry to enter the market, forming a benign industrial interaction pattern of "the city is famous for its pepper quality and the pepper expands with the city".
Pepper City soon became a market depression in the Central Plains, attracting hundreds of miles of high-quality peppers from nearby into the market, quickly winning the national title, and driving a super production base of nearly1500,000 mu nearby, with a daily trading volume of 300,000 kilograms all over the country.
Now, the county has cooperated with large enterprise groups such as American Moike Investment Group and Hong Kong Handing Industry and Trade Group to build large-scale deep processing projects such as pepper food and pigment extraction, hoping to become the largest pepper processing base in China on the basis of forming a national pepper price center.