Oranges from growers in some areas affected by the epidemic are unsalable.

The harvest season for oranges in the south is from October to December every year. Due to the impact of the epidemic in the first half of the year, oranges in some areas are seriously unsalable, and they are worried that the epidemic will break out again in winter, and growers have to endure the pain to sell, resulting in heavy losses.

The reporter learned from the rich village of Jiangxia District, Yangmei (a pseudonym), that every family growing oranges in 16 villages around her area has been seriously unsalable.

The unmarketable price will be halved

The bayberry family has planted more than 300 orange trees on several mu of land, which is not a large family in the area and belongs to the upper-middle scale.

"I'm just worried about that orange. I still have more than 10,000 jin left at home, and there's no good market. Yangmei said that last year she harvested more than 40,000 jin of oranges alone, and they were all sold out by this time last year. However, the output this year is only 30,000 jin, and there is still so much left that the price cannot be sold.

"Last year, the wholesale price was as low as 90 cents. This year, if you can get a few thousand jin, the price is about 50 or 60 cents, which is reduced by half. "

In order to sell quickly, Yangmei set up a stall in Wuli Town, but was rudely driven away by the chengguan and robbed her of her scale. "just don't let us sell it. If we don't sell it in the market, where can we sell it?" "Yangmei felt very suffocated.

Seeing that it would soon be winter again in December, she was particularly worried about the current epidemic. "mainly for fear of the epidemic, the weather is getting cold again." We used to save some oranges to the twelfth lunar month and sell them during the Spring Festival. The price is a little better. I am afraid of the epidemic now. So don't dare to stay at home, if you can't finish it, it will rot away. "

The cost of growing grain is high and every family changes to growing tangerine.

Yangmei told reporters that a few years ago, villagers mainly planted corn and rice. However, due to the high cost of growing grain, it is necessary to be ready to administer medicine at any time, even if the water supply is not good and the management is not good, so all the production will be reduced, and as soon as the output is reduced, we will lose money. Only to produce oranges, we can use less labor and get a little money. So most of the villagers changed their planting of oranges.

"(oranges) usually blossom after the Qingming Festival and begin to appear on the market at the end of October or the middle of October. I didn't expect the price this year to be so bad. "

In Xinjian Village, hundreds of thousands of jin of oranges have become unsalable, and more than 2 million jin of oranges in Baiquan Farm in the East and West Lake District have also been unsalable. The reporter called the garden brigade unanswered.

The reporter also learned from Wang Wei (not his real name), who is engaged in the rental business of fruit stalls, that due to the impact of the epidemic, the decline in people's purchasing power has also affected the shipment volume of the stalls, which is significantly lower than that of last year. "this year's business is not as good as in previous years, the volume is not very large, 40% less than last year. It used to be a truckload a day, but now it's a truckload in two days. "