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At the beginning of may, garlic harvests were concentrated in the rudong plain. On the internet, there are rumors about the “sliding price” “farmer drops” and so on. The abandoned garlic in the video and the “jumping price” of the 9. 9-dollar mail from the live broadcast made many people sweat for the garlic farmers。
What is the situation in henan, one of the largest garlic-growing counties in the country? Journalists went into the county field, the trading market and the processing workshop to find out what was really going on behind the “little garlic wind”。
Varieties vary
It was described that garlic seedlings were grown in the early stages of development and that garlic was extracted from the centre of garlic seedlings as they grew. If garlic is not processed in a timely manner, it affects the quality of garlic. In agricultural production, garlic development is often promoted through garlic。
In fact, the internet's crazy "garlic discard" is the difference. Sun yong, vice-president, explained the difference in garlic:The county garlicCultivation is of two types: garlic, garlic, long and long, and major suppliers; and garlic, which is small, is a by-product, and farmers receive underground garlic。
“the county government held a special meeting on 28 april to discuss the issue and, after the `51st' festival, held a workshop on the sale of garlic, which was expanded as well. The price of garlic fell at a higher rate this year than it did last year, but in general it is normal. Last year's price was at an all-time high, and this year it just returned to normal.” sun yong said。
He walked into chen mintung village in gigantown, where the garlic was full. The farmer, li dao, came to his knees and said, "on the internet, in the garlic-throwing ground, it's a by-product of the garlic-solding species. It's nothing to sell. According to garlic, this year acre is worth more than 2,000 pounds of garlic
Ninety acres of garlic are also being harvested by the contractor zhu pione. He calculated it even better: "a acre cost 3,000 dollars, with more than 2,000 pounds of garlic production, at between 1. 7 and 1. 8 pounds, and acre earns between $1,000 and $2,000. It's not as good as last year, but it should not be lost.” he frankly stated that large growers were the saddest rents and labour costs, renting about $1,200 per acre of land, raising the cost of hiring people every day, making it possible for the scattered to run their own dry costs and operating on a scale that could not be counted for only one year。
This bottom line is not an example in the districts. Decades of planting experience have made farmers “unsurprising” about price volatility. The legal representative of the open city unminorous farm e-commerce ltd., wang barone, introduced the county's people who grow garlic every year, regardless of price, like wheat。
This force stems from mature systems — from the selection of seeds to the tube, from the receipt of the sun, to the formation of a “unseeable standardization”. "when water is poured and fattening, how long is the garlic cut, how dry is it?" li daab said。
It's the quality premium that comes with this “teaching”. According to zhu bong, the head of the international trade market for garlic, the purchase price of local garlic is at least $0. 3 per pound in the county. "it's not who ordered it, it's the result of the market vote." chu bao says。
Production and sales matching optimization services
Farmers are subject to “pressure rock” and well-established market systems are “stabilizers”。
In the international market for the gold garlic, the truck is flowing and the merchants are gathering. As the country's largest monolithic market, it is located in 22 counties surrounding radiation. Zhu bong's introduction: "there's no such size market in taichang, quyang, makoto, and farmers have to bring us here. Because there's everything here, quality checks, freezers, processing, logistics, and government-provided work."
According to the information received, the workshop is a joint working group set up by the county to guarantee transactions. Since april of each year, market supervision, rural farming, public security, etc. Have been established and workstations have been set up in business, public security and the courts. “extreme visitors are the most afraid of being caught in the pit, and there are special working hours for the immediate resolution of disputes - market supervision of transactions, court administration of contracts, public security. We'll match the load." chu bao says。
The market also has the only garlic and garlic quality screening centre in henan province, free of charge. Quality is guaranteed, selling natural water. Wang's electricity company team has established permanent buying points in the market. “currently, online sales are of the most precarious quality, and the county market regulation, although it costs between $0. 1 and $0. 2 per pound more than other production areas, has a low return rate, a high repurchase rate, and is generally more cost-effective。
In the first half of may, the purchase price of garlic from the county was between $1 and $1. 3 per pound, and from $1. 7 to $1. 8 per pound of garlic, down from 2. 2 to 2. 5 dollars in the previous two years. But pull the axle for a long time, it's just a cyclical echo。
In terms of garlic, the county has advantages. A trader from the trader chula garlic said, “my side has no mature technology, no guidance, no quality of garlic is comparable to that of the county. The length of the garlic clippings is uniform, the difference between the garlic and the clippings is not standard, and the purchase price is more than $0. 9."
Extension industrial chain resilience
How do you iron the fluctuations? The answer is to extend the deep processing chain。
In the case of mr. Guangdong, mr. Guangdong's food company, general manager wang sam, he had been working in a garlic processing plant for more than 20 years and had chosen the county because of its advantages — the size of the area under cultivation, geographical indications and the quality of garlic。
Wang sen signed a 5,500-acre plantation and asked farmers to fertilize with standard medicines to purchase it at higher market prices. “i'll give you $3,600 per ton of purchases, but i'll make a brand. Wang sam explained that “enterprises have patent technology for automated garlic decorating equipment, and traditional practices require a one-size-size-fits-all, and that they also have to be used as a protection agent. Their equipment goes straight to root, without water or additives.”
High-quality pricing models are changing production and marketing relationships: leading firms place early orders, set standards, and provide a floor price. Farmers only grow well and businesses sell well。
The chairman of the board, pan san army, is also exploring the matter at pan an food company ltd. This national lead company has a workshop for professors at the chinese university of agriculture, a cooperative laboratory at the henan provincial academy of agricultural sciences and even the union of henan chinese medical university to extract garlic content. From the municipal level to the national level, more than 10 years have passed. The five deep-processed production lines of enterprises are largely uninterrupted, leading to more than 500 jobs a year. In the face of market pressure, the pan san army managed to defuse it, saying, “increased production, a million tons of cold storage, and the stockpiler's loss, but we were able to absorb the current season's pressure by cutting up garlic chips and drying them for 10 years”
As a next step, sun yong said, the canton will expand the coverage of garlic insurance, promote order agriculture and focus on supporting deep-processing enterprises with core proprietary technologies。
"is the garlic price steady?" the answer may not be a number, but a state. At noon on 8 may, the international market for garlic continues to be under fire. According to a trader from yingyang, the price of pre-cooked garlic is “better than day” and has been sold to more than $1 today, “when the amount of mid- and late-cooked garlic comes down, the quality is better and the price will go up”. The data of the agricultural and rural directorate of zhongzhou confirm that the real production of garlic this year has increased by between 5 and 10 per cent over the same period, and that the benefits of warm winters, fewer pests and more intensive replanting have affected the late broadcast。
