How does the price collapse of dragon fruit break through the siege? Jiang Yilu and his wife buried themselves in breeding, hoping that the new strain would replace the old market.

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Banana, pineapple price collapse situation, speculation into the season of red dragon fruit will be the next "victim." In recent years, the price of red dragon fruit is good, many farmers follow suit and rush to plant, so that the price has been in a crisis of collapse. "If you don't have your own customer base, it's not recommended to plant." Jiang Yilu and Lin Mengzi, husband and wife who have studied Red Dragon Fruit for a long time, suggest so.

Both Chiang I-lu and Lin Meng-tsi studied in doctoral programs in the horticulture department of National Taiwan University. More than four years ago, they returned to Kaohsiung's inner gate to plant red dragon fruits, applying their previous academic knowledge to field cultivation. Being in the first planting scene, I feel more about the situation of farmers rushing to seed. "Most farmers see red dragon fruit making money and follow it, but the market expects prices to go down."

They predicted the price collapse crisis first, and advised the farmers around them not to plant red dragon fruits, but instead they were questioned as making profits for their own red dragon fruits, and even ridiculed. "When we started talking about not planting, we were the most pitiful, because the price of Red Dragon Fruit didn't collapse. We talked for two years and were read by farmers for two years. Every time we went to make tea, we were teased."

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Couples have good tacit understanding, carry out breeding and create a new market for pitaya

In fact, two people operate the park observation, because of the heavy rain a few days ago, the park is still a little muddy. Jiang Yilu said that if days of heavy rain caused flooding in the field, branches are easy to rot, may further produce disease,"so at the beginning of the design field area, drainage should be done well."

The interview just mentioned that the orchard should pay attention to cleaning, but actually to the orchard there are still some branches residue not cleaned up, Jiang Yilu quipped,"So every time they come down to the field, Two people will quarrel." Although they will "quarrel", they have a good tacit understanding between them. They sing and complement each other's missing points.

One man is buried in the field, the other stands in the lecture hall to teach, each in his place but inseparable. LinMengZi know his enthusiasm for teaching, talk about school things, clearly like parties; JiangYiLu understand her pastoral life, park in all kinds of conditions, never miss.

Two people all the way hand in hand to study red dragon fruit, but also watched the red dragon fruit industry all the way evolution, from the initial poor strain, to improved flavor, sugar content, good quality Dahong, Fugui red, in the face of farmers have entered the market, market chaos, Jiang Yilu thinks,"To break out of the red dragon fruit market, Must rely on new strains, Perhaps can slowly replace the current cultivation area, Create a new market." At present, the two continue to carry out breeding work, including Huanglong, two-color red dragon fruit, etc., although there are no clear results, but still for the future red dragon fruit new market buried seeds.

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