Thai fruit is famous for producing tropical fruits, and for many years, Thailand has been exporting a variety of tropical fruits to the mainland.
However, this year's Thai fruits are particularly "hot".
Like the representative fruit of Thai fruits, "durian", has been speculating on the Internet for some time ago, "price reduction", "waist chop", the price of durian in the past two or three days has risen on the Internet, and durian in some places has risen from 30 yuan / jin that has just fallen to 35 yuan / jin. Some fruit retail stores are no longer afraid to stock durian in large quantities.
This year, Thailand is expected to export 800,000 tons of durian to the mainland, more than in previous years.
In addition, Vietnam has begun to export durian to the mainland this year, and the mainland's durian imports are much more than in previous years. The import volume is large, and the durian should be cheaper, but the current durian price is lower than in April, but the durian price has not been substantially reduced compared with May last year.
The price of another Thai fruit that has just been listed - "mangosteen" is even more "sky-high", this year's mangosteen has just been listed in small quantities, and the bulk wholesale price has exceeded 22 yuan / jin, which is 7-8 yuan / jin more expensive than previous years. This is almost the all-time high of mangosteen prices in recent years.
On the retail side, many fruit stores dare not buy mangosteen at this time, because the price is too high and it is difficult to take goods. The retail price of mangosteen has generally risen to 36 yuan / jin, this price is more expensive than durian in many places, compared with the market in previous years, the price of mangosteen this year is a very outrageous price.
On the one hand, durian is sold, on the other hand, mangosteen is listed on the market, the price has risen sharply, what happened to Thai fruits this year? Why is it so raw?
What happened to Thai fruits this year?
At present, the fruit market attributes the reason for the increase in the price of mangosteen in Thailand to the decrease in mangosteen production in Thailand this year, which should also be a major factor in the price increase of mangosteen.
But the production of Thai durian this year is not low, but much more than in previous years, why has the price of Thai durian not dropped sharply compared with last year?
Perhaps, the reason for this year's "big explosion" of Thai fruit is not just Thailand's fruit production problem.
The more likely reason is that the consumption of Thai fruits has increased this year.
Like in previous years, due to import and export transportation, transportation, retail fruit store business instability and other reasons, the consumption of imported fruits may not be smooth, many consumers may not have eaten imported fruits in the past few years, such as durian, mangosteen and the like can only silently hide for two or three years, even Chilean cherries that have been popular have also seen price cuts in the first two years.
This year, there are no restrictions on the import and export of fruits, and everyone has no worries about fruit consumption. The consumption of imported fruits immediately broke out, and those who had not eaten imported fruits for various reasons should also be feast this year. Overall, the consumption of imported fruits rose in an instant.
The most popular imported fruits in the mainland are cherries, durians, blueberries, mangosteen and other fruits. Chilean cherries are unfortunate, it is past the season, durian, mangosteen just rushed to a good time for "consumption recovery", catching up with this wave of consumption recovery wind, naturally caught fire.
The main exporter of Thai fruits is the mainland, such as durian almost 80% are exported to the mainland, the mainland's demand for imported fruits rises, should be the first main reason why Thai fruits can be particularly vigorous this year.
It seems that mangosteen durian is not expensive either?
The second reason is the rise in the price of mass fruits this year.
I don't know if you have noticed that the price of many popular fruits this year is a little higher than in previous years.
Like the most common fruits "apples", "pears", etc., the price was relatively low in the first two years, and many wholesalers and retailers were worried about the goods, and sometimes they could not sell them at all. But this year, the price of fruits such as apples and pears has been rising suddenly, and the retail price of 80# apples in supermarkets has risen to 8-12 yuan / jin, basically a not too large apple has 4-6 yuan, the price is really not low.
And fruits such as domestic greenhouse cherries and greenhouse nectarines are also "firm" this year. Generally speaking, domestic greenhouse cherries will come to a big price reduction before the open-air market to deal with the tail goods, but this year this situation does not seem to have happened, the price is very firm, the retail price has been stable at about 50-70 yuan / jin.
Fruits such as apples and pears cannot be sold at the retail end, and they can be put for a few more days and wait to be sold slowly. But fruits such as large cherries have a very short shelf life, and they can be spoiled if they cannot be sold. In previous years, many retail terminals were worried that the tail goods of greenhouse cherries could not be sold and smashed in their hands, and they would reduce the price to deal with it, but this year there is rarely such a situation.
This also shows from the side that this year's fruit consumption is stronger than in the past two or three years.
The vigorous consumption of fruits has led to the rise in domestic fruit prices, when a pound of apples have risen to 8-10 yuan, then the price of fruits such as durian and mangosteen does not seem to be so expensive. Because in the impression of consumers, durian and mangosteen are generally "luxury fruits", and apples and pears are popular fruits. When the price of mass fruits is close to luxury fruits, many consumers may have such a consumer psychology, anyway, eating an apple costs so much money, it is better to spend more money to buy durian, mangosteen to taste.
That is to say, on the basis of the large return of fruit consumption demand, it coincides with the rise in the price of domestic mass fruits, thereby promoting consumers to turn to consume Thai fruits that may not have been eaten often in the past. Anyway, it's not cheap, it's better to consume a "luxury" fruit and taste it.
The price of Thai fruits has not dropped this year, but like mangosteen, the price has risen sharply. However, under the background of the rise in the price of popular fruits, durian and mangosteen are not so "expensive" in the minds of consumers.
The high and low prices are contrasted.
How many days can Thai fruits still be strong?
The "vibrant" of Thai fruits during this period is obvious to all, firmly occupying the "C position" of the fruit market, which is difficult for other fruits to shake.
However, there is no need to worry too much about the price of durian and mangosteen will continue to rise.
Although the price of fruits is not low this year, although the enthusiasm of fruit consumption is very high, do not forget that it is about to enter June.
June is a "fruit competition" season for the mainland, all kinds of fruits will basically be listed at this stage, such as the much-watched open-air cherries, lychees, etc., will appear in June in a large number of shining scenes, when the entire fruit market is a crowded scene of "thousands of troops crossing the single wooden bridge".
If nothing else, like big cherries, the annual output of the mainland has been about 2.2 million tons, and the annual output of lychees has also reached more than 2 million tons. Coupled with the successive launch of fruits such as bayberry from Zhejiang and sunshine rose grapes from Yunnan, this has put great pressure on the consumption of durian and mangosteen.
Consumer demand is limited, today's meal to eat a pound of big cherry, is generally unlikely to eat a pound of durian today, so under the competition of big cherries, lychees and other fruits, fruits imported from Thailand may not be fierce for a few days.
At present, the amount of big cherries and lychees on the market is not much, and when the big cherries in Shaanxi, Shandong and other places are fully listed, and when the lychees in Guangdong and Guangxi are fully listed, the good days of Thai fruits may come to an end, and the popularity may continue to begin to cool down, and it is unlikely to continue to grow.
In addition, in addition to lychees and large cherries, evergreen "watermelons" like another summer fruit will gradually be marketed in large quantities, unlike winter watermelons, the price of watermelons in summer can be described as "large tube full". When a large number of watermelons are on the market, presumably the "stomach" of consumers will occupy a larger space by watermelons, and the consumption demand of other fruits will naturally be compressed again.
In short, although the current "offensive" of Thai fruits is fierce, but in the next two months, it is estimated that the three-board axe of Thai fruits will also be finished, and the domestic fruits below will gradually appear on the stage to sing, and the new "C position" fruits may be born in the open air cherries, lychees, sunshine rose grapes, watermelons, four domestic fruits.
Which of these 4 fruits do you think is the focus of the next fruit consumption?