How does the price collapse of Red Dragon Fruit break out of the siege? Jiang Yilu and Lin Mengzi immersed themselves in breeding, hoping that the new strain would replace the old market.

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Bananas and pineapples have successively reported price collapse, and it is speculated that the red dragon fruit entering the production season will be the next "victim". In recent years, the price of red dragon fruit is good, and many farmers scramble to grow seeds, so that the price has been in the crisis of collapse. "if you do not operate your own customer base, planting is not recommended." Couples who have studied red dragon fruit for a long time, Duan Jiang Yilu and Lin Mengzi, suggest this.

Both Jiang Yilu and Lin Mengzi studied in the Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University. More than four years ago, they returned to the inner gate of Kaohsiung to actually plant red dragon fruit and applied their past academic knowledge to field cultivation. In the first planting site, I feel more about the situation of farmers scrambling for seeds. "the vast majority of farmers follow the market when they see the red dragon fruit making money, but the market expects the price to go down clearly."

In anticipation of the price collapse crisis, the two men advised the farmers around them not to plant red dragon fruit, but they were questioned and even ridiculed for their own red dragon fruit. "when we first started talking about not planting, it was the most pitiful because the price of red dragon fruit did not collapse. We were studied by farmers for two years after two years, and we were ridiculed every time we went to make tea."

Photography / Liu Yixin

The couple have a good understanding and carry out breeding to create a new market for red dragon fruit.

Actually, I went to the park run by two people to observe, because of the heavy rain a few days ago, the park is still a little muddy. Jiang Yilu says that if heavy rains cause flooding in the fields, the branches will rot easily and may cause further diseases. "so when you start to design the field, you have to do a good job of drainage."

The interview just mentioned that the orchard should pay attention to cleanliness, but in fact, there are still some branches in the orchard that have not been cleaned up. Jiang Yilu jokingly said, "so every time they come down and walk in the field, the two will quarrel." Although they will "quarrel", the two have an excellent tacit understanding during the conversation, singing together and complementing each other's missing points.

One is buried in the field to plant, the other is standing in the lecture hall to teach, each in his place but inseparable. Lin Mengzi knew his enthusiasm for teaching and talked about the school clearly like the person involved. Jiang Yilu understood her pastoral life and never missed out on all kinds of conditions in the park.

The two men joined hands to study the red dragon fruit all the way, and watched the red dragon fruit industry evolve all the way, from the poor strain at the beginning to the improved red red and rich red with good flavor, sugar content, and good quality. in the face of farmers entering the market for seeds and market chaos, Jiang Yilu believes that "in order to kill the market for red dragon fruit, we must rely on new strains, which may gradually replace the existing cultivated area and create a new market." At present, the two men continue to carry out breeding work, including Huanglong, two-color red dragon fruit, etc., although they have not yet achieved definite results, they still plant seeds for the new market of red dragon fruit in the future.

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