On June 15, the news of "Zhejiang Xianju Dongkui Yangmei exported a piece of Dubai for 60 yuan" appeared on the hot search. It is reported that the "Dongkui Bayberry" is known as the "Ping-Pong Bayberry", and the single fruit weighs 22 to 25 grams.
Yangmei experts from the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences said in an interview with Qianjiang Evening News on June 9 that there are two main cultivars of 1.32 million mu of bayberry in Zhejiang Province, 53% dongkui bayberry and 28% water chestnut planting bayberry. They produced 640,000 tons last year, with an output value of 4.7 billion yuan. This year, due to climatic reasons, dongkui bayberry production has been reduced, and the production of many production areas has been reduced by more than 50%.
Yangmei (Source: Qianjiang Evening News)
According to the news of China's Taizhou network on June 15, on June 14, the first batch of 500 kilograms of Dongkui Yangmei worth 80,000 yuan was loaded from Dazhan Township, Xianju County, Zhejiang Province, and will be airlifted to Dubai, United Arab Emirates via Shanghai Pudong Airport. It is reported that this is the first batch of Bayberry exported abroad in Taizhou this year, and the price of local supermarkets is as high as 60 yuan per piece. At 10 p.m. on June 15, the yangmei will catch a flight to the United Arab Emirates at Shanghai Pudong Airport, and after an 8-10-hour voyage, it is expected to arrive in Dubai from 8 to 10 a.m. on the 16th.
The cover news reported that some netizens said after calculating according to the data in the report that the total price of 500 kilograms of bayberry was 80,000 yuan, about 0.16 yuan per gram, which was calculated as 4 yuan according to a 25 grams, so it seemed wrong to think that "one 60 yuan" was wrong. In this regard, the reported fruit farmers said that the "80,000 yuan price" and "a 60 yuan" two prices questioned by netizens are actually the purchase price and the retail price, and the two cannot be directly converted when calculating, but the company does not know where the data of "one 60 yuan" comes from and is being verified.
The price of bayberry sold by a Chinese fruit dealer in Dubai (Source: Network)
On the afternoon of the 15th, the Jimu news reporter consulted a Chinese living in Dubai, who said that in the past two years, she had not bought bayberry in the local area, and when she bought it in the first two years, it was about 50 dirhams (1 dirham about 1.8279 yuan) a pound.
A Chinese fruit distributor in Dubai said they began selling austere from Yunnan in Dubai for about 65 dirhams (420-450g) in Dubai. Currently on sale is the Arbutus from Fujian, which is 58 dirhams a catty.
The customer service staff of a large local Chinese supermarket in Dubai said that there is no Bayberry for sale on their supermarket e-commerce platform, and the physical store should not have it. A Chinese living in Dubai was commissioned by a reporter from Jimu News to visit two Chinese supermarkets near his home and found that there were no bayberry for sale.