Recently, due to the rise in the vegetable market, many agricultural and sideline products have also been affected by it and followed the rise, such as pork from 8 yuan to 15 yuan a catty, eggs from 4.6 yuan to 5.8 yuan a catty, mutton from 38 yuan to 45 yuan a catty, grass carp from 7 yuan to 10 yuan a catty.
In addition to meat and eggs, fruit prices have also risen. For example, Apple is like this, the Fuji apple on the market has risen to 7-8 yuan a pound in recent days, compared with 3-5 yuan a month ago. The apple rise this time is mainly driven by poor yields and low fruit rates.
The price of citrus is no exception, and the prices of sugar oranges, honey oranges, citrus, oranges, etc. on the market have risen, generally rising by 1-2 yuan a catty. These citrus markets have not been too good in recent years, but this year due to drought in many parts of Guangxi, production has decreased, and citrus has not yet entered the market in large quantities, so its market has gone higher.
However, some people have also found that the price of bananas has also risen in recent days, and supermarket retail sales have sold to about 3.5 yuan, up 20% year-on-year. I remember that in previous years, banana retail has been 2-3 yuan a catty.
However, Chinese banana farmers who have contracted land to grow bananas in northern Myanmar are now miserable, and their exports are currently restricted, and many bananas cannot be sold on the ground.
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In Liangguang, Yunnan and other places rich in bananas, over the years many banana farmers have earned considerable income, such as bananas per mu yield of about 10,000 pounds, its purchase price of 0.7-0.8 yuan a catty, such an acre of land can earn seven or eight thousand yuan. Due to the increase in fertilizer, management, labor and other costs, the cost per mu has reached 5,000 yuan, and the net profit of one mu of land is 2,000-3,000 yuan.
In fact, the net income of two or three thousand per mu of land has been very impressive, but in recent years, many places in China have banana diseases, so that the reduction in production is more serious, and the profit declines or even losses. To this end, many people have also begun to turn to the contracted land in northern Myanmar to grow bananas. However, these people who went to northern Myanmar to "pan for gold" did not seem to be too happy.
Lao Wang is a member of the "gold digger", he rented 200 acres of land in northern Myanmar to grow bananas, but in October the bananas have matured, but the passage between China and Myanmar has been closed for 4 months, these bananas can not enter the country, but the Myanmar market is not large, there is no market, helpless Lao Wang had to distribute bananas to workers to eat.
According to him, more than 50 tons of bananas have been lost, worth more than 100,000 yuan, and if customs clearance cannot be opened, the loss will increase. Lao Wang said that in order to grow bananas, he was in debt of 800,000 yuan, but after struggling for so many years, the money was still not paid off, the children were older, and the burden of family life was too large.
Zhang Ge is also a member of the "gold panning" in northern Myanmar, he said that he contracted more than 900 acres of bananas, which were ripe at the end of September, because there was no market, they could only be placed in the cold storage, but because the cold storage cost was too high, and the "customs clearance" was hopeless, he could only discard a large number of bananas, otherwise he would lose more.
Zhang Ge said that he came to plant bananas 18 years ago, invested 5 million yuan in the first year to open up the wasteland, and then calculated the cost of workers' wages, ground rent, fertilizers and pesticides, etc., bananas need to be sold for more than 1 yuan to not lose. However, in March this year, due to the pressure of domestic traders, the transaction price of bananas was only 0.6 yuan a catty.
Zhang Ge said that in 4 years in Myanmar, there has not been a year without losses, and the cumulative loss is currently more than 10 million yuan. I thought that the price of bananas would rise in the second half of the year and be able to earn back the cost, but I did not want to lose more this year because of the "closure".
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As early as 2006, the State Council issued instructions to encourage Chinese companies to develop in Myanmar, and a large number of Chinese came to Myanmar to invest and start businesses, including many banana growers.
The leasing process is that Chinese enterprises first lease cheap land with the Myanmar government, and then individuals reach a lease agreement with the enterprise, and the rent is 500-1000 yuan / mu. The first batch of people who came to northern Myanmar to grow bananas did make a lot of money, but in the past 5 years, the people who panned for gold basically returned home.
For example, Li Baolin lost 3 million yuan in 2020, mainly due to the restrictions of the pass, and bananas could not enter the country smoothly, resulting in a large number of bananas rotting in the ground. However, what makes Lao Li even more troubled is that there are often robberies here, and once robbed, the whole home will be emptied, and he does not dare to stop the thieves' actions.
At the same time, because of the losses in the past two years, there is no money to pay wages, and local workers even take up knives and threaten to ask for wages. There are some banana farmers who choose to live lightly because of too many losses.
Every year from October to May, the bananas will ripen one after another, but if the threshold is not opened, the loss will only be greater, and the year will be in vain. In order to clear the customs, the banana farmers have tried all kinds of methods, but there has been no result.
However, due to the inability of bananas from Myanmar, Laos and other countries, the supply of bananas in China is tight, and as a result, its price has risen sharply. From the point of view of production areas, bananas in Guangdong are 2-2.9 yuan / kg, Guangxi is 2.5-4 yuan / kg, Yunnan is 2.5-3 yuan / kg, and in previous years, the price of bananas was only 1.2-1.5 yuan / kg.
It can be seen that if you want to solve the problem of the sharp rise in bananas in China, you still have to solve the problem of "customs clearance" in a timely and effective manner, and transport bananas from Myanmar, Laos and other places to the country, so that those banana farmers who have left their hometowns can be better, what do you think?
The first part of the article refers to the official article: