Why can her Nuomici litchi sell for 80 yuan per jin?

The scorching sun is burning and the outdoor temperature has reached 35 ℃.

Wearing a straw hat and muddy trouser legs, Jiang Guirong, a lychee grower in Huajinggang Village in Guangdong Province, skillfully started the medicine pump and lifted a water pipe of several meters to the top of the litchi tree. In less than half a month, Nuomi will be on the market. "there are more Rain Water this year, and there are retting flowers in some places near the trees. This is the last round of fruit protection before listing, which is very critical." She looks serious.

Jiang Guirong is in his own litchi garden. Photo taken by he Lixiong

Taste tender and smooth, taste extremely sweet, nuclear small Nuomi is the aristocracy of litchi, in many varieties of litchi is recognized as "precious", but also difficult to grow, more difficult to manage. In 1992, Jiang Guirong has been growing glutinous rice curd for 24 years. From the initial free growth and occasional harvest, to spending four years doing comparative experiments, she constantly explored the planting technology of glutinous rice curd, and finally achieved stable production.

Today, her husband has a stable job, her children have graduated from college and have no worries about food and clothing. Jiang Guirong, 48, is a jealous woman in the village. She could have enjoyed a quiet and happy life, but she insisted on growing litchi all the time, and the fruit setting rate this year was as high as 95%. In the face of a steady stream of confusion, she always smiled and said: "people always have some sustenance."

Glutinous rice paste once sold for 80 yuan per jin.

About 1.6 meters tall, thin and brisk, Jiang Guirong is very quick to do things. On June 14, Jiang Guirong sweated like rain in the litchi garden, and a set of drug pumps weighing 50 to 60 jin still walked faster than ordinary people on his shoulders.

When she first married in Jinggang Village 24 years ago, Jiang Guirong did not attract much attention. Like other rural women, the burden of her husband going out to work, farming and raising poultry almost falls on her.

When it comes to the reason why Jiang Guirong and his family planted glutinous rice curd at that time, it is a long story.

Around 1986, because the old people in the family liked to eat, Jiang Guirong grafted a number one red tree into glutinous rice curd. In the first year of hanging the fruit, there was a harvest of about ten jin. "it's very sweet and tastes good." Jiang Guirong remembers that at that time, a purchaser went to the village to buy Nuomi rice curd with a bid of 10 yuan per jin. "ask us if we sell it, of course! We should know that at that time, chickens were sold for only 2-3 yuan per jin, and the monthly salary of civil servants was less than 200 yuan. " At that time, only one glutinous rice clover sold for more than 100 yuan, and the family was overjoyed.

Seeing that Nuomi can make money, in 1992, the Jiang Guirong family, who was not well-off, bought more than 100 seedlings in one breath to expand the planting area of litchi. At that time, the price of glutinous rice paste skyrocketed, and every household set off an upsurge of planting!

In 1997, the price of glutinous rice paste soared to 32 yuan per jin. In 1998, the price doubled to 60-80 yuan / jin! "at that time, our litchi sold for 80 yuan per jin, and a small basket of glutinous rice dumplings sold for more than 3000 yuan. This is simply astronomical. " Recalling the situation at that time, Jiang Guirong could not hide her excitement. She used "incredible" to describe the market at that time. "it was completely unexpected. It should be the peak of Nuomi rice paste." As for the reason for the high price that year, she still hasn't figured it out.