Last year, internet hot words such as "ginger you army" and "garlic you fierce" rushed to the internet hot search again and again with the high price of onion, ginger and garlic. However, in recent times, some ginger growers have provided clues to china's three rural reports, and the purchase price of ginger has fallen sharply this year, reaching a 90% drop compared with the same period last year. To this end, our reporter recently visited some of the main ginger-producing areas to explore the reasons behind the "roller coaster" of ginger prices.
In Gaomi City, Weifang, Shandong Province, local ginger farmers are harvesting ginger in the fields. Jiang Nong said that the price of ginger has fallen sharply this year, and this time last year, fresh ginger sold for five yuan a catty, while this year's price was only fifty cents a catty. In the process of visiting a number of ginger-producing areas in Shandong, the reporter of China Sannong Report found that many growers have responded that the purchase price of ginger this year is the lowest point in recent years.
Ginger growers in Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, said: "Last year, ginger was still worth a little money, the previous year was more than three yuan per kilogram, the previous year sold two yuan per kilogram, and at the end of the day, it reached more than three yuan per kilogram, which is an average of two or three yuan per kilogram." In the ginger planting base in Changyi City, Shandong Province, the growers here face the same situation, "Ten years to meet each kilogram of five hexagons, I planted for ten years I know, this is the first year to plant ginger to sell five cents a pound." ”
Let's do the math
High-density growers to the reporter to calculate an account, a mu of local ginger needs more than 1,000 pounds of ginger seeds, according to the price at the beginning of this year, about 5,000 yuan, trellis, shed film, pesticides, fertilizers need about 10,000 yuan, if it is the circulation of land planting, but also need about 1500 yuan of circulation fees, plus sowing and harvesting labor costs, the cost per mu is about 20,000 yuan. If calculated according to the yield of 15,000 catties per mu, the purchase price will reach 1.3 yuan per catty to protect the capital, and below 1.3 yuan per catty, the grower will lose money.
Since the cost of ginger cultivation is so high,
Why are so many growers still willing to plant?
According to the reporter's understanding, because of the high price of ginger last year, the land price of 5 yuan a catty allowed many farmers to invest in the field of ginger planting. Just in the high-density town of Zhougezhuang, the planting area of ginger has expanded from two or three thousand mu last year to more than 20,000 mu this year. Wei Shulei, a local ginger broker, said: "The national ginger planting area has been expanded by at least three times, and the first year of planting will not be planted, at least more than ten acres must be planted, planted, in the past planted five acres of land, now have to plant more than ten acres, plant ten acres of planting more than twenty acres." Hebei and Anhui, including the area around Changyi in Shandong, have expanded so much that ginger farmers who can't cover land have gone as far as Hebei and Anhui to plant ginger this year. ”
The storage of ginger in the cold storage can also reflect the large-scale expansion of ginger planting this year, Zhang Muming, director of the information department of the China Vegetable Association, said that the current harvest of ginger in Anqiu for ten days, or belongs to the middle of the harvest of ginger, but the cold storage is already full, and there are still three-fifths of the ginger yet to be harvested. In previous years, the cold storage may not be full after the end of the ginger harvest.
What are the reasons for the sharp decline in the price of ginger?
At present, the main reason for the sharp decline in the purchase price of ginger is still oversupply, while at the same time, the continuous rainfall in the main production areas in the past month has also led to the accumulation of water in the ginger cellars of some growers, which has further aggravated the price decline.
Fresh ginger must be stored before it can be used as a seasoning ginger, and in general, ginger farmers have ginger cellars in their own homes. In regular years, when the market is not good, it is temporarily stored in the ginger cellar, and it will not affect sales afterwards. But this year, due to the weather, many growers have accumulated water in their ginger cellars. The ginger planting technical manager of a company in Changyi City, Shandong Province, said: "Now the ginger cellar is full of water, and there is no place to put the ginger after it comes out." Even the ginger stored last year was affected and forced to sell out of the water. ”
Experts said that due to factors such as changes in supply and demand, policy adjustments and domestic and foreign markets, whether it is ginger or other vegetable industries, there is some uncertainty in the trend of China's agricultural product market. Whether it is a grower or a seller, before entering the market, you must understand the market, do more analysis, rational consideration, and do not have speculation. However, the reporter found in the interview that many new ginger growers this year, out of the mentality of making a profit, did not build a ginger cellar or cold storage at all, and could only lose money on the spot, or even directly did not harvest.
Zhang Muming, director of the Information Department of the China Vegetable Association, analyzed: "In fact, many vegetables are cyclical, and the size of the agricultural year is also applicable to vegetables, such as onions, ginger, garlic and other vegetables, the increase and decline will be more obvious." In fact, we can learn about the historical situation from all sources. For example, our China Vegetable Association, which undertakes the national vegetable production information monitoring and early warning project, will regularly release relevant information on vegetable land prices, and there are some large wholesale markets, and the official website also provides historical data on wholesale prices that can be queried. In particular, it should be noted that there must be no additional production in a gambler mentality when the price is significantly higher than in previous years, or when it is at a high level for a long time. ”
CCTV reporter: Jiang Kai, Li Ning
Edit: Wen Jie