"buy five pounds and ten pounds of hair" "free garlic, take whatever you want." recently, the internet has been exposed to rumours that the opening of the city of henan province is “carpage-deficient, farm-run”. According to local official field verifications, rumours of “smoking” are exaggerated and distorted。
It is understood that the canton garlic is mainly divided into two types of plantation, garlic, which is the main source of revenue, and is of low value and subsidiary produce. This year, the whole of the national garlic production was abundant, some of the poorer garlic was sold at low prices, and a few farmers voluntarily abandoned harvests, not “global de-sale”。
Garlic is a subsidiary agricultural product
"screeching" is an essential part of field management
Li changjun, the head of the lee ho family farm in zhuang county, planted 40 acres of garlic this year, saying that the garlic harvest was indeed good but within expectations. Li chang jun described an acre of land producing between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds of garlic and 300 to 500 pounds of garlic. Garlic and garlic are edible parts of agricultural products such as garlic and are important sources of income for farmers。
While garlic is growing, the two are clearly competitive in nutrients, and if the garlic is not extracted in time, it will continue to take up soil nutrients, directly resulting in a small head and lower quality of the garlic and lower overall crop yields, so that “pigging” is essentially a necessary part of field management。
Zhang kaimin, president of the association of the garlic industry, said that there were two main reasons for this year's harvest:
In addition, local garlic cultivation has been delayed by more than 20 days and has been concentrated in early, medium and late garlic, much higher than last year。
Journalists were able to reconcile developments in domestic and foreign markets for agricultural products in 2026, and the price of garlic fell significantly, by 10. 0 per cent, during the 16th week of april 13-19, 2026. The director of the centre for agricultural development services of shangzhou said that fluctuations in special agricultural products were closely linked to market supply。
Will price fluctuations in garlic affect the harvest of growers? She said that the garlic varieties planted in the cantons were predominantly garlic-based, that garlic was a subsidiary agricultural product in the growing process and that it belonged to a “grain-based, garlic-backed” pattern of cultivation. For garlic growers in the canton, however much garlic can be sold, the process of “grain” cannot be saved, and if it is not, it will have a direct impact on underground garlic production。
Zhang jing, deputy researcher at the agricultural information institute of the chinese academy of agricultural sciences, described the abandonment of garlic by farmers, which was based only on recalculation of field management costs。
Zhang jing: in the henan region, the main production is red hat garlic, which is a by-product of timely processing, and when the cost of artificial extraction is greater than the market price of garlic, the abandonment of the harvest is the act of doing business after a combined accounting。
There's no demurrage in garlic
It is understood that the garlic harvest is now over. She said that the county-wide cold storage stock was around 340,000 tons。
Thank goodness: the total production of garlic in the canton is 900,000 tons and the total production of garlic is about 76,000 tons. In early may, garlic had been fully harvested and the main outlets for sale had been the market and the bank. There are more than 290 storehouses, with a capacity of 62,000 tons, and more than 20,000 tons, or approximately 340,000 tons, are currently out of stock, without any problems of demurrage。
Establishment of an early warning mechanism for sales
Extending the industrial chain to the bottom
Garlic farmers' cashbags remain secure, but hand-to-hand “sell short videos” also reveal the fragility of the dissemination of information on agricultural products in the new media age. Chan long, professor at the school of food and materials, nanjing university of finance and economics, stated that false information could not be less damaging to regional agricultural markets。
Jianlong: although the nationwide impact of this video is limited, the negative effects are significant for some farmers who are particularly dependent on local markets. Some farmers are too old to be able to tell the truth, they'll panic when they're late, they'll feel bad selling, and i won't do it next year. We need to strengthen the use of rumours at different levels, so that growers can learn the truth and reveal the truth in a timely manner, through channels such as text messages, micro-publics, rural loudspeakers, etc。
How can the bottom of agricultural products be fundamentally stabilized? Zhang jing, vice-researcher of the agricultural information institute of the chinese academy of agricultural sciences, believed that, on the one hand, it was necessary to guide farmers in the calculation of “comprehensive accounts” and, on the other hand, that the real way out was to establish early warning mechanisms for marketing and to extend industrial chains。
Source: china voice, central radio and television
