A lot of fruit is rotten in the orchard, but the price of fruit in the supermarket is very high.

Tang Xuanzong in order that Yang Guifei can eat fresh litchi, there is du Mu poem: a ride the concubine of the world of mortals laugh, no one knows it is litchi. In those days, only 800 miles of fast horses were in a hurry to get fresh fruit. although the transportation is now convenient, the cost of intermediate transportation is getting higher and higher. when the fruits that seem to rot in the orchard are delivered to the final consumers through thousands of mountains and rivers, the price has already made it difficult for ordinary working class to satisfy and eat freely.

For example, litchi in Guangxi, mango in Guangdong, and pineapple in Xuwen County are really not expensive in the fields. Let's calculate why the fruit is so expensive.

Artificial fruit picking

Now the labor cost is very high, not less than 200 yuan a day.

There is also a labor cost from taking it off to loading it on the car. These labor costs are determined according to the local economic level.

Transport vehicles to all parts of the country

Transportation needs drivers and fuel, and now the wages of drivers who drive large cars are not low, because driving transport vehicles are all urgent over long distances, and the cost is higher.

Local wholesale market (let's call it a first-tier wholesale market)

Taking the fruit to the local wholesale market requires booth fees and unloading. It needs to be refrigerated because many fruits have a short shelf life and the cost in the local freezer is not low.

It needs to be shared by second-tier vendors.

At this time, there will be many local supermarkets or retail individuals to wholesale fruit, pull to their own stores or streets to sell. Their stores also need a series of fees, such as rent, water, electricity, labor and so on.

To sum up, as a layman, it is impossible to estimate how much the cost has risen in the middle. Although the price is sold cheaply in the orchard, the consumers who finally pay the bill have to bear all the costs, and the circulation of goods is thus raised. When the price of the fruit you eat is too different from that of the land, you should know it in your own mind.