Chinese yam growers are faced with difficult choices, who pays for the unsalable market?

It is now a good time for spring ploughing and yam planting, but in Minquan County, Henan Province, the land of the Central Plains, there is a strange sight: local growers have just begun to harvest yams from the fields. The yam was supposed to be on the market last October. How could it be dragged on until now?

Beiguan Town, Minquan County, is a major yam growing town. Villager Lao Zhao is a big yam grower. It is spring ploughing season, and his face is covered with sadness. He said:

40,000 jin of goods have been dug up, but the customer has not been contacted so far. Now it is also difficult to sell, has been digging to sell.

In order to make money, Lao Zhao put up all his family wealth, and made a loan of 100000 yuan, planted 10 mu of yam, planted two varieties, one is iron bar yam, the other is nine jin of yellow yam. Last October, the yam got a bumper harvest, but since then, the market of yam has not been good. In order to wait for the market, Lao Zhao never harvested it, so he stayed in the field. According to the current price, it is estimated that Zhao lost 30,000 yuan on 10 mu of land and failed to repay the loan. Lao Zhao's tragic experience is not alone. In Beiguan Town, in addition to the yams planted in the fields, many people's homes are also full of yams. Li Damin, a grower:

In my village, the amount of yam in stock at home is relatively large, such as iron bar yam. In our place, it can be sold for less than 3.50 yuan, and everyone is losing money.

The purchase price of Chinese yam can reach 10 yuan per jin at the highest. At present, regardless of the purchase price, the sales price of Chinese yam in Beijing market is about 2 to 3 yuan per jin of yam and about 0.9 yuan to 1.5 yuan per catty of yellow yam. Compared with the same period last year, the purchase price has dropped by about 50%. Grower Li Damin said that according to the local general standard, the planting cost of iron bar yam per mu is generally about 6,000 yuan, and the yield per mu is about 2,000 jin. As long as the purchase price is less than 3.50 yuan, the growers will lose money. It is precisely because they do not want to lose money that many yam growers have chosen to procrastinate and wait for the market since October last year.

I didn't dare to sell at that time, but I couldn't sell it even if I wanted to. If you just want to wait for the price to go up, it will get cheaper and cheaper.

After the Spring Festival, the price of yam not only did not rise, but also very few merchants came to buy it. Chinese yam growers want to cry without tears. Now is the spring ploughing season. Yam in the field must be sold. Can it be sold?. Whether or not to grow yam in the vacated land is a difficult choice. So why is there a trough in the market of yam? it is not even possible to rebound in the short term. Cui Xiaona, an analyst at Zhuochuang Information, believes that there are too many people planting yam at present.

Chinese yam is easy to manage, the benefit of growing Chinese yam is good a few years ago, when the market is good, one mu of land can earn more than 10,000, the economic benefit is higher than wheat and corn, resulting in the explosive growth of yam planting area in many areas. Chinese yam is different from radish cabbage, the market consumption is not so large, there is a situation that supply exceeds demand.

Lu Aiqin is also a big grower of yam, he is also very worried, but he has a cold storage. Lu Aiqin's freezer contains 200000 jin of yam. He has two cold stores like this, and the current stock is 400000 jin.

It has been kept for three to five months, and the freshness is the same as the freshness just dug out in the field. You are like I have my own bank to store yam, and you are like the common people who cultivate the land below. if they don't have a bank, they have to sell it for 2 yuan or 1 yuan a jin.

Cui Xiaona, an analyst at Zhuochuang Information, believes that on the current market, small growers should choose to turn around in spring ploughing.

At present, Chinese yam does not make money, small growers should adjust the planting structure, grow some fruits and vegetables, can not wait for the market.

For growers who have a little bit of strength, Cui Xiaona suggests building cold storage. However, the construction cost of cold storage is very high, and a joint drying method can be adopted in order to reduce the cost.

In fact, when planting a variety on a large scale in a region, local growers should be careful. some farmers who have a certain strength can look for like-minded friends and adopt advanced vision to build a number of equipment and facilities for deep processing and storage, purchase and storage when the market is bad, reduce costs, and wait for the market, so that they can not only make money, but also save the industry of a region.

Cui Xiaona said that whether it is yam or other agricultural products, one after another unmarketable incidents tell us that we should not only plant agricultural products, but also think about how to sell them after planting. Agricultural products are an industrial chain, including planting, acquisition, storage, processing, sales and other links. When many people choose to plant, farmers who participate in other links may be able to make a lot of money.