Hail + heavy rain has led to a reduction in lychee production, and the price may skyrocket
Recently, everyone should have felt that this part of Guangdong has been raining continuously, and even flooding. Even if it rains, the hail will follow. I'm afraid that the insurance company will have to pay a lot this year, and I really have to pay the insurance company to cry. Of course, the worst should be those farmers and growers.
On April 30, the media reported on the incident. It turns out that Zengcheng, Guangzhou is the famous hometown of lychees, and it is also the original place of Chinese lychee stamps. The local red lychee in March is famous throughout the country. However, due to the heavy rains and hailstorms experienced in Guangzhou, many orchards were damaged by flooding. Therefore, many fruit farmers are rushing to harvest lychees after the rainstorm. The reason is also very simple, if the lychee tree is soaked in water, then the moisture content of the lychee will rise and the sugar content will decrease. Then after you eat it, you will find that the lychee is very sour.
So this makes many netizens feel that this year's lychees must be very sour. Of course, this is not necessarily, after all, the fruit farmers are also grabbing the harvest, and there must be some sweet. However, it is indeed an ironclad fact that the yield of lychees has decreased, so some fruit farmers told reporters that the price of lychees this year will be a little more expensive than before. It is expected that lychees will also be listed on May Day at that time, and the purchase price will be about ten yuan a catty.
This will cost ten yuan a pound from the fruit farmers, plus the cost of transportation labor and so on, I am afraid that the price of lychees in the market will be about 20 yuan at that time. However, in the past, when the yield of lychee was good, the price was generally around 10 yuan. Therefore, the price of lychees may also skyrocket this year. After all, this is the case in the market, where scarcity is expensive. And now on the e-commerce platform, the price of red lychee in March is generally about 20 yuan a catty.
However, for this lychee, many Guangzhou locals said that they would not eat it at all. Perhaps for them, this kind of lychee has long been tired of eating and they don't like to eat it very much. But for many outsiders, this lychee is still very good.