The famous Japanese sunshine rose grape was once called "printing machine fruit" by many people, and some people earned more than 1 million yuan per acre by planting sunshine rose grapes. Of course, now the sunshine rose grapes have walked off the altar, and the price has fallen from more than 120 yuan / kg to 10-40 yuan / kg today.
The sunshine rose grape, a printing machine, is basically "scrapped".
In the domestic fruit, in recent years, Guizhou's bee sugar plum has also been fried hot, the price has been fried to more than 80 yuan / jin, many people call it "Li Zhong Maotai". However, with the expansion of the planting area, the high price of bee sugar plum is gradually unable to support, in addition to the "Zhenning bee sugar plum" brand of origin has a premium, the bee sugar plum planted in other regions has almost "disappeared from the crowd".
If "boiling wine talks about fruit", who is the printing machine in the current fruit?
I am afraid that "Thai ruby grapefruit" will have a place.
For Thai ruby grapefruit, most people are probably quite unfamiliar. Thai ruby grapefruit is a variety of grapefruit native to Papanan District, Nakhon City, southern Thailand, also known as "Siamese grapefruit", which is a major symbol fruit in Thailand.
Around 1980, a man named "somwang mannae" bought a grapefruit variety with red pulp from a county in Thailand. But at first, the flesh of this grapefruit was not very tasty, mainly bitter, and after several generations of selective breeding, it was finally selected to breed a sweet flavor of "ruby grapefruit".
The ruby grapefruit has a cyan cyan skin and the flesh is a very clear red, as magnificent as a ruby.
Simply put, Thai ruby grapefruit has nothing to do with ruby, it is a grapefruit variety.
Most Thai ruby grapefruit is grown in Thailand's nakhon si thammarat province, and more than 80% of Thai ruby grapefruit is exported to our country every year.
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In Thailand's ruby grapefruit plantation, the purchase price of a Thai ruby grapefruit is about 80-150 yuan, after exporting to China, the retail price has to double several times, can sell to 200-400 yuan / one. This year, the fruit merchants who hyped thai ruby grapefruit in the market even sold for 600 yuan / piece.
The average fruit weight of Thai grapefruit is 1.5-3.5 kg, according to the maximum 7 kg, 600 yuan / Thai ruby grapefruit is also more than 80 yuan / kg.
Many people will ask, who will buy more than 600 yuan / grapefruit to eat? You have to know that consumers who can spend three or four hundred to buy a grapefruit to eat will not care about spending another three or four hundred.
Thai ruby grapefruit came to China, taking the high-end route, don't care if it is delicious or not, anyway, it is "high-end".
For Thailand, the Thai ruby grapefruit is a cash cow in the province of Nakhon si thammarat. Some merchants, when explaining why Thai ruby grapefruit is so expensive, always have the habit of saying that "the production of Thai ruby grapefruit is extremely low".
But in fact, the overall planting area of Thai ruby grapefruit is not large, and the overall yield is low, but the yield of a tree is not as low as imagined. In Thailand, a Thai ruby grapefruit that has fully reached the fruit stage can reach 300 fruits, and the output value of a tree is also 20,000-30,000 yuan. In nakhon si thammarat province, exports of Thai ruby grapefruit have reached 1 billion baht (about 200 million yuan).
China's more expensive grapefruit, generally 50-90 yuan / one, most of the grapefruit price is below 50 yuan / one, grapefruit is not an expensive fruit like cherry. But Thailand's ruby grapefruit, like Japan's sunshine rose grapes, has become a "high-end variety" among popular fruits.
The output value of a tree can reach 20,000-30,000, and it is not too much to say that it is a fruit printing machine.
No matter how expensive the fruit, there is also a cycle. Like the sunshine rose grape, which plummets in price, the Thai ruby grapefruit is expected to usher in its plunge day.
In Thailand, the current planting area of Thai ruby grapefruit is not too large because Thailand itself is not large. And in 2017, Thailand's ruby grapefruit production area also suffered a serious flood disaster, a large number of Thai ruby grapefruit suffered losses, to replant to restore production capacity, at least 4-5 years.
But the biggest challenges come from China's Guangxi and Vietnam. China's Guangxi and Vietnam are also very suitable for growing Thai ruby grapefruit, and At present, Guangxi in China has been promoting the cultivation of this variety. In general, Thai ruby grapefruit takes 4-5 years to reach a good harvest period, that is to say, if it is planted in a large area this year, it will take four or five years for this price to come down.
Of course, it is estimated that there should be many people growing Thai ruby grapefruit at present.
This is very similar to the Sunshine Rose grape, the high price can only be maintained for a period of time, and when the "pick-up fruit farmers" who follow the trend are planted, the price will fall sharply.
Finally, to talk about the flavor of Thai ruby, the more official statement is "the skin is thinner, the flesh is easy to peel off, thick and slagged, crystal clear, sweet and juicy, sweet up to 14 to 15 degrees, sweet but not greasy."