Once sold to sky-high prices, acquirers snatched a head for it. This year, farmers let it go bad.

Presumably many people are no stranger to such words as "garlic is ruthless", "Jiang your army" and "forward spring onions". These seemingly spoof network words reflect the changes in the prices of agricultural products in recent years with a witty attitude. each round of price soaring or plummeting, affecting not only the cost of living of consumers, but also agricultural middlemen and growers. Among consumer goods such as onions, ginger and garlic, the most well-known is undoubtedly garlic, which attracts the attention of consumers every year. The annual price is like a roller coaster, especially the "garlic is ruthless" that has aroused concern among consumers in 2012 and 2016. Many people feel that they can't afford it.

Garlic can be kept fresh in cold storage for as long as three years, so some garlic will use this time to stock up. When the market is good, many purchasers make reservations when farmers plant garlic. In the previous two years, the purchase price of garlic balls reached 3-5 yuan per jin, which is good news for growers. After a large number of vendors hoarded goods, they sold them at a high price of 8-11 yuan per jin, thus making a lot of money, creating a lot of millionaires or even millions of millionaires. The law of the market is like this, the higher the price, the crazier the market is. Under the temptation of such "sky-high price", growers expand their planting area one after another, resulting in a price drop after the market is saturated.

Just like the price of stocks, garlic, which once let vendors snatch the head, cannot escape the market law no matter how much it hoarders. The price of garlic has plummeted this year. The purchase price of fresh garlic is only 70 or 80 cents per jin, and growers have no way. Hiring people is too expensive, labor is more expensive than garlic, can not afford it, can only let it rot in the field. Garlic is excavated every year during May Day, and then garlic is planted around National Day holiday every year. in the face of this purchase price, many growers plan to switch to other crops. Because as things stand, the more you plant, the more you lose, rather than not planting at all.

However, the price of garlic on the market is not low. By inquiring about the price of garlic this year, the average wholesale price in the farmers' market is 3-6 yuan per kilogram, which will only be higher in the hands of consumers. In the final analysis, the market demand will always exist, but how to change the current relatively traditional "blind" planting, and establish a better direct marketing channel, is a win-win move for farmers to increase income and consumers to buy cheap agricultural products.