The planting area of sugar beet has increased, will it make money to grow sugar beets in 2017?

Original title: the planting area of sugar beet has greatly increased. Expert: if the price of sugar is high, you can still make money next year.

According to China Rural Voice China, sugar beet is an important raw material for sugar production, which is mainly distributed in * *, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places. In recent years, with the high price of edible sugar, the purchase price of sugar beet has risen, the planting area has also increased, and the income of farmers has increased rapidly.

Over the past few days, the beet purchasing station in Bingli Village, Dayushu Town, Kailu County, Inner Mongolia has been busy with traffic, and the beet growers in the village have rushed to the purchasing station from all directions to sell sugar beets with a cart full of beets. Jia Hongwei, a grower who has just unloaded the beet, said happily that this year, his family has had a bumper harvest of 75 mu of beet, and the price is twice as high as the price of corn.

Jia Hongwei: one mu of land is more than four tons, 480 yuan per ton, and the net income is more than 1500. This year's price is stronger than corn, normally up to twice the price of corn.

Affected by the continued downturn in corn prices, this year, Bingli Village, as the main corn producing area, has made great efforts to develop sugar beet cultivation in accordance with local conditions, and more than 1,000 mu of land has been planted with sugar beets, and the benefit is not bad. Jiang Ming, Party Branch Secretary of Bingli Village:

Jiang Ming: there are 37 growers in Bingli Village, and 1000 mu of sugar beets have been planted this year. Sugar beets are also a bumper harvest this year. Now we are starting to harvest. Now, we can see that the net vegetables per mu are about five tons, and the price per ton is 480 yuan. So the income of an acre of land is 2,500 to 600 yuan. If you go to the cost of more than 600 yuan per mu of land, you can leave about 2000 yuan. The benefit is very considerable.

As the income of sugar crops is higher than that of other crops, and sugar prices have continued to rise in the past two years, farmers are more enthusiastic in planting. In 2016, the planting area of sugar beet was about 2.4 million mu, an increase of 18 percent over the same period in 2015. Take the main sugar beet producing areas and Inner Mongolia as an example. This year, the planting area of sugar beet increased by 5% from 920000 mu to 970000 mu, while that of Inner Mongolia increased by 40% from 680000 mu to 950000 mu. Wang Tao, an analyst at Zhuochuang Information Market, pointed out that although the planting area has increased, the price of sugar beet is relatively stable and will remain high.

Wang Tao: the purchase price of sugar beet in 2016 is not much different from that of last year. * the average purchase price of sugar beet is about 443 yuan per ton, slightly lower than that of 448 yuan per ton last year, while the purchase price of sugar beet in Inner Mongolia in the past two years has been maintained at 530-540 yuan per ton. Sugar beet is mainly used for sugar production. Due to insufficient sugar production across the country in 2016 and 2017, sugar prices are expected to remain high in 2017, so the purchase prices of sugar crops such as sugar cane and sugar beets are less likely to fall. This high price is expected to continue in 2017.

It is understood that sugar beet planting mainly implements order production, and the products are supplied to the local sugar factory. At the beginning of this year, a professional sugar beet planting cooperative was set up in Bingli Village, Dayushu Town, Kailu County. it adopted the planting method of "cooperative + farmers" and signed a 1000 mu sugar beet planting and recycling contract with local enterprises, with a price of 480 yuan per ton. Zhou Xicheng, Agricultural Clerk of Sugar Division of Inner Mongolia Chifeng Angel yeast Co., Ltd.

Zhou Xicheng: since spring, our company has specially sent people and technicians to follow up services, provide seeds and chemical fertilizers, and wait until the autumn harvest to be responsible for the acquisition. We bought it at 480 yuan per ton. The planting area of Bingli Village in Dayushu Town is 1000 mu, with a pre-production of 5000 tons, and the net income of ordinary people is about 1500 or more than 1500.

In the past two years, the price of white sugar is higher, the income of sugar beet planting is larger, and the planting benefit of sugar beet in some areas is twice as high as that of corn. Wang Tao advises growers to maintain an appropriate planting scale and make full use of policies to develop superior industries.

Wang Tao: for sugar beet growers, it is recommended to maintain their own sugar beet planting base and not to reduce its planting area easily. in addition, in recent years, the government and local sugar factories have carried out improved varieties and mechanized rectification of the sugar beet planting base. Growers can rely on policy support to develop sugar beet cultivation into a local advantage industry.