Import pineapple to attack the mainland? Farmers: the price drop has nothing to do with imports, but the abundance is concentrated due to the increase of cultivated area and weather.

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The local pineapple production period is concentrated from March to July. This year, due to weather factors, domestic production has greatly increased, resulting in a drop in prices. At a time when pineapples are abundant in China, it is reported that imported fresh pineapples can be bought in supermarkets, causing questions from the outside world. However, according to the agricultural statistics of the Council of Agriculture, a total of 407 metric tons of fresh pineapples were imported from January to March this year, and none have been imported since March.

Imported pineapples have always been subject to tax quota restrictions, but the import time is staggered with the domestic production season. According to this year's regulations, the tariff quota for pineapples is 10, 1870 tons from January to the end of March, and 10, 2000 tons from August to the end of December.

Quan Lian of domestic retail stores like to buy and fresh supermarkets all said that at present there is no sale of imported fresh pineapples. He Bingyang, director of the Longtan Fruit and vegetable production Co-operative in Pingtung County, said that when domestic pineapples flourish, the price is relatively low, and it is not cost-effective to import pineapples. Su Mao-hsiang, deputy director of the Agriculture and Food Administration, also explained that imports are now not price competitive. Taiwan's pineapples are cheap and of good quality, and most of them are imported only when Taiwan's pineapples are green and yellow.

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Native pineapple has complete head and tail, imported pineapple goes to head and tail.

Then why are there rumors of imported pineapples now? He Bingyang points out that most of the imported pineapples come from the Philippines and Thailand, of which the Philippine variety is MD2, and some farmers in China also grow this variety. "it should be a MD2 variety grown by local farmers, which is mistaken for a Filipino variety."

How to tell the difference? Ho explains that fresh pineapples imported from abroad will go from head to tail because they have to be quarantined, while pineapples in Taiwan will leave their ends behind. Su Maoxiang says that ordinary people have a good-bye demand for pineapples in traditional markets, so pineapples imported from abroad have limited access and are mostly sold in volume stores.

Talking about the differences between golden diamond pineapple and MD2 varieties with a domestic planting proportion of up to 90%, he Bingyang explained that golden diamond pineapple has better sweetness and flavor quality, while MD2 variety has thicker fiber, but its quality is more stable in the face of climate change.

China's pineapple export volume has shown an increasing trend in recent years. The picture shows pineapple ready for export (Photo / Cai Jiashan)

Who on earth dropped the price of pineapple? After the torrential rain, the secondary products of meat sound fruit increased greatly, which was purchased at 8 yuan per kilogram.

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