The lowest price of cherries coming by boat is less than 20 yuan / catty, and the price of cherries in Zhengzhou is expected to continue to decline

Top News Dahe CaiFang reporter Chen Wei Wu Haishu Wentu

With the approaching of the Spring Festival, the consumption of new year goods ushered in a hot purchase period, and the fruit market is also very hot. With its bright color and sweet and sour taste, Chelizi firmly occupies the "C position" of the Spring Festival fruit market and has become one of the "imported New Year goods" that many people are keen on.

Entering January, the retail price of cherries from Chile has also fallen as a large number of sea cherries from Chile enter the domestic market.

The price has dropped continuously, and the price of the group buying platform is less than 20 yuan per 500 grams of cherries

On the Taocai platform, the price of XL-grade cherries per 200 grams on January 4 was 10.9 yuan, which was adjusted to 9.99 yuan by January 10, and on January 18, the price of the same cherries has dropped to 8.68 yuan. Also sold on the same day was a cherry gift box, and the XL-class cherry 2.5 kg package was priced at 99 yuan, which means that the price of each 500 grams of cherries is less than 20 yuan.

Although the price of cherries is not low compared to fruits such as oranges, oranges, apples, and crisp pears, its popularity is very high.

In the Wanbang Park, the reporter of Dahe Newspaper and Dahe Caifang saw that the price of 10 kilograms of double J-class cherries was about 300 yuan. "In the past two days, the supply of cherries has been slightly tense, and this morning the three-car cherries arrived in half an hour after they were ordered." Henan Wanbang International Logistics City Fruit and Vegetable Market Huadefeng Fruit Trading Co., Ltd. said that this also made the price of cherries rise slightly, and the price of 3J-class cherries 10 pounds reached 450 yuan.

In November last year, when the main air freight into the country, the price of 10 kilograms per box exceeded 1500 yuan, and the sea freight cars began to arrive at the port around New Year's Day, and the price was also reduced to 600 yuan per box, so it seems that the price decline in cherries in the past 3 months is still very obvious. "But in fact, the price of cherries this year is still higher than last year." Ning Yabing, manager of the international marketing department of Wanbang, said.

There is also a wave of cherries "drifting" on the road, and prices are expected to continue to move lower

In 2005, Chile became the first country in Latin America to sign a free trade agreement with China, and the following year, Chilean cherries were allowed to enter China on a large scale. The data shows that China has become the largest consumer of Chilean cherries, with 92% of Chile's cherries exported to China every year. According to the Chilean Fruit Exporters Association, In the 2020-2021 season, Chile exported a total of 352,000 tons of cherries, an increase of 54% year-on-year.

Chile is full of sunshine, fresh and pollution-free air, and the temperature difference between day and night is very large, which is extremely conducive to the accumulation of fruit sugar. Because of the different geographical environment, when the Chilean cherries are ripe, they are just in time for the Chinese people to celebrate the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, whether it is to give gifts or treat themselves, it is very appropriate to buy some imported cherries.

Ning Yabing said that in the past few years, most of the people buy cherries or for gifts, they may not be willing to eat, in recent years, with the improvement of people's income level, the acceptance of these more expensive fruits has also improved, slowly pulled the sales of cherries, production also rose, the price gradually fell. In addition, the price of cherries and transportation methods also have a lot to do with the first few batches of cherries that are airlifted every year, the price is still not low, with the opening of shipping, the price of cherries will also decline.

Henan Wanbang International Logistics City Fruit and Vegetable Market Huadefeng Fruit Trading Co., Ltd. said that there is a wave of cherries "drifting" on the road, and it is expected that prices will continue to decline in a few days.

Sunshine rose grapes, avocados, snake fruits... Those net red fruits that have walked off the altar

In the Spring Festival of 2019, Cherry is still a "rare thing" on the table of the public, and in just 3 years, Cherry has begun to become a New Year's product that many families are willing to buy.

In addition to cherry, in recent years, there have been many net red fruits that have stepped off the altar, such as sunshine rose grapes, avocados, snake fruits, etc., and even familiar sugar oranges.

A few years ago, the most expensive sunshine rose grape sold for 300 yuan a catty, known as "Hermes in the grapes". High price, delicious, imported products, many labels make the pursuit of sunshine rose grapes become a consumer fashion, become the darling of the fruit industry. In just a few years, prices fell again and again. Last summer, you can buy 1 pound of sunshine rose grapes in the supermarket for more than 10 yuan. Sunshine rose grapes have a lot to do with the explosive growth of domestic planting area. The data shows that in 2016, the mainland sunshine rose grapes totaled more than 10,000 mu, and in 2020, the cultivation area of sunshine rose grapes was 800,000 mu, and the sunshine rose grapes expanded by 1 million mu in the 5 years from 2017 to 2021.

In addition, avocados have also obtained similar qualities to imported fruits through domestic introduction and planting, which has promoted the price of domestic avocados to be much lower than the import price, and the transportation cycle is shorter and fresher. In 2005, avocado officially entered the Chinese market, the unique taste of a fruit sold for more than 20 yuan at a high price, and now on the e-commerce platform, 15 yuan can buy two avocados. From 2013 to 2017, the sales volume of avocados in China increased from 2 tons to 30,000 tons, an increase of more than 10,000 times. Take the avocado in Menglian, Yunnan, for example, its taste is even better than that of imported ones, from the Branches of Yunnan to the table of the people in just 72 hours.