<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > preface</h1>
Saponaria thorns: The spikes on the soap pod tree, which once sold for 150 yuan and 1 kilogram, are now facing embarrassment and helplessness
Soap pods, which are definitely a kind of tree that many post-70s and post-80s rural children are more familiar with.
In the past, children liked to run into the mountains all day, and all kinds of trees liked to climb, picking wild fruits, digging bird nests, etc., all needed to use the "unique skill" of climbing trees. If anyone climbs the tree fast and high, he will become the envy of his friends.
But there is a tree in the countryside that many children dare not climb, and it is a soap pod tree, because this tree is covered with many sharp thorns. Don't say it's climbing, just looking at it will frighten you.
Do you know that these spikes on the soap pod tree used to be fragrant in the past, and once sold for 150 yuan a kilogram. It attracted many farmers to plant, but now they encounter embarrassment and helplessness.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > an introduction to saponaria thorns</h1>
Saponaria thorn is a spike that grows on the soap horn tree, and is also called soap thorn, tenn, soap horn needle, soap needle in the folk. This thorn is not ordinary, it is very slender, and it is also very hard.
Some of the longer ones can grow to more than 15 cm, but this takes many years.
In particular, there will be thorns on this thorn, and some of the older large soap pod thorns will grow five or six sub-spines on it. This thorn is not ordinary, very hard. As hard as a steel nail, it can easily pierce the tires of a car.
In the past, the conditions were not good, and many people in the countryside would pick soap pods for washing clothes and soap. And sometimes although I am very careful, I will still step on the soap horn thorn if I am not careful, and the pain of the drill heart is really no less than stepping on the steel nail.
However, such spikes have also become fragrant food in previous years, and have sold for 150 yuan a kilogram. So what is the use of soap pod thorns?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > value reference for soap horn thorns</h1>
In the past, some elderly people in the countryside would also go to the wild to pick up soap horn thorns.
These soap horn thorns can be used to cook soup, such as chicken soup, pork rib soup, and can also be used to cook soup with pork liver. In the past, there were also some people who specially picked up soap horn thorns for brewing wine and drinking, and you picked up soap horn thorns when you were a child, or did you eat them?
In fact, the whole body of the soap pod tree is a treasure, and the soap horn thorn is also of great use, because it is a relatively unpopular Chinese herbal medicine.
In Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that the soap pod stabs the wind and kills insects. In the "Materia Medica", it is pointed out: soap pods are thorny, and the poison is pulled out to dispel the wind. It is effective for rheumatoid sores, itching wind chips, rheumatism and other diseases.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > saponaria thorn planting prospects</h1>
After 2010, the market demand for soap horn thorns has increased significantly, and the price has been rising, in 2010, the market was 70 or 80 yuan a kilogram, and in 2012, it rose to 120 yuan a kilogram.
In 2015, it reached its peak, and the long-standing large soap horn thorn can sell for 150 yuan a kilogram.
It was also from this year that many farmers were attracted to plant it. Because before this, the saponaria thorns were basically wild, the yield was very low, and the harvest was difficult, but the market demand was very large, so the price continued to rise.
As its price continues to rise, the number of people planting soap horn trees has also begun to increase. Some farmers saw the business opportunity and began to contract mountain woodland and plant soap horn trees on a large scale. Originally, I wanted to make a fortune from this, but I didn't expect to encounter embarrassment and helplessness now, because the soap horn thorns planted could not sell at any price.
The saponaria tree can pick the soap horn thorn in the second year after planting, and four or five years will enter the peak production period, and its economic life is very long, and it can continue to harvest for more than 100 years, only because the life of the soap horn tree is very long.
However, since 2015, as the number of people planting soap horn trees has increased, the yield has gradually increased, and its price has begun to waver, falling to 100 yuan per kilogram in 2016 and falling below 90 yuan per kilogram in 2017.
After that, it fell to 35-40 yuan per kilogram. Don't look at the price is not bad, but the growers are complaining bitterly.
Because the contract mountain woodland is planted with soap horn trees, it will cost about 300 yuan per mu of land contracting a year, and one mu of land can produce less than 100 catties of soap horn thorns. And it is worth mentioning that the cost of harvesting soap horn thorns is constantly increasing.
The harvesting of soap horn thorns is very difficult, this kind of tree can not be climbed, can only be beaten down with a very slender bamboo pole, so it is very difficult to pick. Moreover, the picked soap horn thorns are also cut by hand with pliers, and a person can cut three or four pounds a day.
However, the most expensive thing in these years is the cost of labor, so with the increasing proportion of manual processing costs, rental planting costs, and transportation costs, it seems that thirty or forty yuan a pound of soap horn thorns, in fact, the profit is not high, so most of the growers are still in a state of loss.
And the most frightening thing is that as more soap horn trees are planted, and many places are planted, the merchants who buy them also see that the profits are not high and are not willing to buy them.
Many farmers are very troubled and want to cut down the trees, but they have paid a lot of costs for many years. And continue to plant, but entangled in selling, so it is a dilemma.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="68" > concluding remarks</h1>
In many rural areas now, wild soap horn trees are rare. And even if there are a few trees sporadically, but because of the small distribution, no one will buy them.
So don't think that the soap horn thorn can sell for thirty or forty yuan a pound is very exciting, in fact, a few pounds can not be picked a day, but also cut it into small thorns, after drying can be sold. In this way, it is better to go out to work and earn money, and you can earn two or three hundred yuan a day.
In fact, this is a common disease in the medicinal materials cultivation industry, and they are all very risky. Once the amount of planting is large, the price drops very obviously. Over the years, many peasants have suffered losses in this regard.
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