How much is a kilo of sea cucumber? Extreme weather causes sea cucumber to reduce production sharply, prices will run high

Original title: sea cucumber production reduced greatly due to extreme weather analyst: price will run high

According to China Rural Voice "three Rural China" report, the autumn and winter replenishment, sea cucumbers began to sell well again. Many friends still remember that the sea cucumber industry fell miserably a few years ago after a period of expansion, so what about the price recently?

According to the reporter's understanding, since August this year, the sea cucumber market has shown signs of warming up, and prices have been adjusted back.

With the cold weather, sea cucumbers in Qingdao, Shandong Province ushered in the fishing season.

Su Ling, a sea cucumber buyer from Fujian, told reporters that in previous years, it only took him two days to return to Qingdao with a full load, but this year he spent four days looking around and raising prices to complete the acquisition.

Su Ling: in previous years, we can get 10, 000 jin or 20, 000 jin a day, which is quite easy. This year, we can only get 3, 000 jin or 5, 000 jin a day. Shan-Dong Sea Cucumber Soup may only have about 20% left.

Xu Chunhui, an analyst at Shandong Weihai Aquatic products Wholesale Market, told reporters that in the first half of this year, the sea cucumber market was still in the doldrums. in the middle of the year, live sea cucumbers were raised in the market greenhouse at 40 yuan per jin, the lowest price in the market in nearly five years. Then in August, the sea cucumber market gradually warmed up, especially after the National Day this year, the price of sea cucumbers rebounded sharply.

Xu Chunhui: the price of sea cucumbers in the recent market has been running at a high level. Recently, the price of raising live sea cucumbers in greenhouse is 126-130 yuan per kilogram, up 25.5% from the same period last year.

The reason is that Qingdao encountered a rare high temperature in August this year, the water in the culture pond reached 35 degrees, sea cucumbers died and a large number of production was reduced. The reduction in production has led to a rise in prices, sea cucumber farmer Han Haiyang.

Farmers: the price this year is better than in previous years, about 50 in previous years, and between 55 and 60 this year.

At the same time, analyst Xu Chunhui believes that the sharp rise in sea cucumber prices, in addition to the hot weather leading to a reduction in production, internal adjustments in the industry a few years ago, many retail investors out of farming, also aggravated the current shortage of supply and demand in the market.

Xu Chunhui: the supply of sea cucumbers in the market has decreased. Before 2011, sea cucumber products set off an upsurge in the high-end market, but then due to wanton expansion, the production capacity of the industry expanded rapidly, and the price of sea cucumbers went down all the way, leading to a decline in the whole industry, such as seedling breeding, breeding, processing and so on.

The situation of low production will continue for a long time, because it takes about two years for Qingdao sea cucumbers to be released to breed, and now a large number of sea cucumbers, which have been cultivated for a year, have died, and the current fault in the market needs at least one year to repair. It is precisely because of this cycle that many small and medium-sized wholesalers are hoarding goods to cope with the rising price of sea cucumbers.

Retailer: with the approach of the Spring Festival, the price of this sea cucumber can rise by 15%. Now the market price of sea cucumbers across the country has rebounded, and many processors are starting to hold back their sales.

In terms of market demand, the current domestic demand for sea cucumbers has basically bottomed out, coupled with the nutritional function of sea cucumbers gradually into the hearts of the people, personal consumption began to rise steadily, some areas have shown signs of recovery. With the Spring Festival approaching, the northern sea cucumber market has entered the peak consumption season, first, the purchasing power of consumers has increased in winter; second, at the end of the year, many processing enterprises have purchased and processed dried sea cucumbers one after another. Therefore, analyst Xu Chunhui predicts that the price of sea cucumbers is expected to remain high in the short term.

Xu Chunhui: industry insiders believe that the change in the price of sea cucumbers also presents a big cycle of five years, and it is expected that the price of sea cucumbers will rise to the highest point next autumn.

(source: CCTV. Com, author: Liu Yuying)