The garlic price war starts ahead of time! Do imported garlic cause trouble or monopolize by local merchants? How do farmers break through?

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(upstream and downstream reporters Lai Yuwei and Kong Delian / tr. by Phil Newell)

Local garlic will officially enter the production season next week, but the garlic price war has begun early. First, when legislators blasted large quantities of imported garlic that led to a collapse in garlic prices, the Council of Agriculture immediately held a press conference to refute that the impact was "negligible." at a time when the debate between the two sides is still going down, the purchase price of the place of origin, which continues to be explored, has already made farmers nervous.

Farmers are accustomed to harvesting wet garlic and hand it over to the trader instead of drying and storing it themselves (Photography / Huang Mingyi)

Garlic prices continue to shout low auction transactions for Yunlin garlic out of a new road?

Agricultural administrative units have advised garlic farmers to take drying measures and wait for the opportunity to sell, but this is not the best option in the minds of garlic farmers. Bulk garlic will be harvested next week. Without baking garlic, how should wet garlic break through the price limit of local merchants under the pressure of scrambling for time to sell? Inquire about the wholesale market station of agricultural products, on March 27, the auction price of dried garlic in one city and two cities is still maintained at 44.09 yuan per kilogram. Do garlic farmers intend to hand over garlic to the auction market?

Zhang Yuxuan, director-general of the Kuantong Rural Peasants' Association, believes that although the auction is a practice, it also has its difficulties. On the one hand, even if the current auction price is good, but when the garlic comes out in May, if all the garlic is sold for auction, the follow-up price may not necessarily remain high-end, and even the transaction price may be lower than the cost price; second, garlic is a closed crop. Garlic farmers are used to garlic farming and garlic trading, and most of them rely on local merchants to bid. If garlic traders do not trade in the auction market, there is nothing garlic farmers can do. Can the auction find a new way for Yunlin garlic? The farmers' association of the place of origin is still observing.

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