Introduction: The "red peach k" that has disappeared for many years is now red again for 1 pound and 20 yuan, is it worth planting?
In recent years, many people have carried out special breeding projects in rural areas, especially farmers who plant medicinal materials, which have obviously increased compared with previous years.
As the so-called "high profit, high risk", the same is true for growing medicinal herbs, although its profits are considerable, but the risk is also very large.
As some growers say: less is treasure, more is grass. This is the most true portrayal of the planting of medicinal materials industry, once there are more farmers planting, even the most expensive medicinal materials will suffer a sharp drop in price, or even a tragic fall, plummet.
But after following the trend, it often takes less than a few years to "make a comeback" and become a planting hotspot again. Like in the past two years, there is a clear upward trend of medicinal materials, which was popular for cultivation 20 years ago, but later because there were too many people planting them, the price fell sharply after the growers have withdrawn.
After years of disappearing, it is now once again popular, selling for 20 yuan a catty in the market, and it is still in great demand.
This plant is the "roselle", and 20 years ago it had another well-known name - red peach k, do you remember it?
If you love to drink tea, especially the majority of female friends like to drink flower tea, you should often see a red flower on some stalls selling flower tea, it is also the most common raw material in flower tea, and this kind of flower that looks like a rose is a rose flower.
Listening to this name, many people will think of China's classic literary works - Roselle, which is a work depicting "Roselle".
In fact, the roselle flower is not a native plant in our country, and it was not called this name at the beginning. It is an annual upright herb native to the tropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere, originally called Rose Ashwagandha, and is currently cultivated in tropical regions of the world.
Rose ash is the flower of the hibiscus plant of the mallow family, it is also called red plum fruit, mountain eggplant, etc. in the folk, and later after the introduction of China's planting, in order to promote it, it was given a more spreadable and recognizable name - roselle flower.
Especially later, a major product for it was produced- red peach k, which became a hit and became a household name in our country.
It is also because of the successful renaming of the hibiscus flower, so that the reputation of this plant is greatly enhanced, and it is famous in the north and south of the river, so at that time, a wave of planting hibiscus flowers was blown.
Especially by the marketing promotion of some enterprises, a large number of advertisements have come all over the place, so many farmers have joined the team of planting roselle flowers.
Although the roselle is a tropical plant, it is also an invasive species, this plant has a strong vitality, can be cultivated in many southern provinces of China.
And the planting of this plant is not too complicated, the soil requirements are not strict, in addition to clay and alkaline soil, the general soil can grow.
In particular, it thrives on newly reclaimed land and sandy loam soils with deep soil layers. Therefore, at that time, many farmers in the south began to cultivate roselle flowers, hoping that after the harvest, they could realize the idea of getting rid of poverty and getting rich.
But the idea is beautiful, the reality is cruel. The farmers who planted roselle flowers in the early days were the first farmers who did make money. With more and more farmers planting in the back, the price of hibiscus flowers in the market is also falling, and several prices can appear in a day.
Even the cost of buying seedlings could not be earned back, so many farmers abandoned the seeds, resulting in the roselle in many places becoming a wild plant, or planting it around the garden, which was originally an ornamental plant.
After all, the greatest value of the roselle is in its flowers, which do not look like fruits or other crops. Farmers plant is to sell money, now no one to harvest, their own picking can not be eaten as rice, farmers have abandoned the seeds is also a helpless move.
However, in recent years, hibiscus flowers have obviously begun to slowly become popular in the market, like this year's hibiscus flowers have just ushered in the harvest season.
In some production areas, the sun-dried roselle flower, the purchase price alone has risen to more than 20 yuan a catty, and it is still a large number of acquisitions. If it is retail in the market, then the price will be higher, and some places have broken through the price of 30 yuan per catty.
From the sudden "rotten market" after the planting trend, Roselle flowers disappeared for many years. The continuous rise in prices in recent years has a lot to do with its market demand.
Because the standard of living has improved in recent years, the number of consumers who like to drink flower tea has increased significantly. Market demand has increased, but the number of farmers who grow hibiscus has not increased much, after all, many farmers have been afraid of it before, which is the so-called "ten years of being bitten by a snake for ten years afraid of the well rope".
And not only the domestic demand for roselle flowers has increased significantly, but many countries have also imported from China. Data show that every year the United States imports thousands of tons of hibiscus flowers from China for processing and eating. Southeast Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea also import more than 1,000 tons from China every year. It is precisely because the consumption of roselle flowers has been rising in recent years that it has further stimulated the rise in its price.
Does that mean that growing roselles now will definitely make money? Some people will definitely have such a method, take advantage of the price increase, then hurry up and plant.
However, no one can accurately predict the direction of the market, and even if the price of roselle flowers has risen in the past two years, many people still say that it is a planting scam, that is, because the product cannot be sold.
There is a reason for this, because some farmers only care about planting, but ignore the most critical part of sales. The roselle flowers planted, because of the lack of marketing, had to rot in the ground and no one bought them.
Therefore, if farmers want to plant roselle flowers, they must not be hot-headed and blindly follow the trend, and the first consideration is whether they have such sales ability.
After all, this thing is only sporadic planting, can not form a scale, the vendor does not know that you have planted here, ah, this is the so-called "wine is also afraid of the alley deep."