Birds hurt farmers in the shadow of bird flu, farmers treat duck to eat "April and winter"

Mr. Wei of Liu Yong Farmers' Market said that he brought in 1000 ducks on the 18th, and more than 400 ducks had not been sold out until about 5pm, but they usually sold out quickly. Photo taken by reporter Yan Jie

On April 19, the average transaction price of duck line in Liuyong Farmer's Market in Liuzhou City was 3.1 yuan / jin, and the closing price was as low as 2.7 yuan / jin. Qin Zhijia, a duck farmer in Luoman Town, Liujiang County, received a phone call from his colleague and looked at the 8000 ducks that will be on the market in the reservoir for sale in a week and smoked three cigarettes in one breath.

Welcome to eat me a duck.

"if you want to keep the cost of raising water ducks, you have to sell them for about 4.7 yuan per jin. The price is so low now that I will lose about 10 yuan to sell one. I will lose 80 thousand for 8000 ducks. " Qin Zhijia said that raising ducks has a certain cycle, and it will be on the market when the time comes, otherwise ducks will no longer grow and will consume feed in vain. "the biggest cost of raising ducks is feed. A duck spends 3.8 yuan per jin on feed. 8000 ducks need 60 packets of feed a day, and each pack costs 115 yuan, and a day's feed costs 6900 yuan. If you sell it one day later, thanks to 6900 yuan, the duck farmer can't afford to wait. "

Since the outbreak of H7N9 bird flu in China, Qin Zhijia has never been so concerned about media reports on poultry. He stressed that every duck he raised had been vaccinated against the flu more than ten days after entering the market, and the vaccine was received free of charge from the town's animal health department. "the ducks I raise now are as safe as before!" For this reason, every time someone comes to the duck farm to collect ducks, he will kill a duck to eat with the guests. He hopes to prove the safety of ducks in this way. But this small effort still can not help him improve the current situation, "I can only hope that when the duck comes on the market a week later, the price will be slightly higher and less loss."

The market price has fallen again and again.

In the same situation as Qin Zhijia, Ma Yongqiang, a farmer in Luorong Town, just disposed of the 4300 ducks in his hands in several batches, then temporarily stopped entering the duck seedlings and came to visit the farmers' market every morning. "the lowest price is only 2.4 yuan per catty for the first batch, and the highest is only 3.1 yuan per catty. In total, he lost more than 60,000 yuan. " Ma Yongqiang, who came from Zhejiang to raise ducks in 1990, claims to be a veteran, but seeing new reports of bird flu every day makes him and his colleagues even less aware of the timetable for the recovery of the duck market and can only hope that the situation does not get worse.

When it comes to the impact of H7N9 bird flu on the duck market, Ms. Wu, who works as a duck consignment at the farmers' market in Liu Yong, is equally impressed. She took out an account book she carried with her, which recorded the opening price, closing price and average price of the recent period of time: "since Qingming Festival, the duck price has been falling continuously, as low as 2.4 yuan per jin." At the end of last year, the average price of ducks was 6.5 yuan per jin. " She said, "in the past, 18 cars (2000 ducks per car) were pulled into the market to sell, but 12 cars were pulled into the market on the 19th, only five were sold, and the rest were put into the freezer. Market trading volume has shrunk by more than 30%. "

Customers are hard to see at the booth.

Even worse than the downturn in the duck market, there is the pigeon line. "from 3 o'clock this morning when I went to the market to open, and now it's 11:00, not a single customer has been seen." Master Huang, who sells pigeons at the Liuyong Agricultural Trade Wholesale Market, says that there are only seven stalls selling pigeons in the market, and they gather in the same corner of the market. "under the influence of bird flu, passers-by are now walking around our stalls, not to mention people coming to buy them. I haven't opened for a week, and the other households are about the same, and I can sell about 150 a day on a normal day. "

"pigeons are different from other poultry. We usually receive a profit of one or two yuan from farmers, so the price of pigeons has always been 18 yuan each. Otherwise, like other poultry prices, we vendors will lose money. " Master Huang said that compared with the vendors among them, the biggest loss was the farmers, and the small farmers who supplied him could not bear it and were no longer ready to raise it.

Compared with the gloomy pigeon line, since Ching Ming Festival, Boss Liu of Ji Xing No. 100 has gradually reduced the price of native chickens that used to be 8 yuan per catty to 5.50 yuan per catty. Even so, he used to be able to keep the sales volume at about 1,000, but now there are only more than 200. The reporter saw in the chicken shop that some merchants have played "local chicken 3 yuan" signs, such as 4 yuan, 5 yuan signs can also be seen everywhere. At the exit of the market next to the chicken shop, the reporter saw that some vendors began to retail at such a low price, "Native Chicken 3 yuan per jin." There was a lot of helplessness in the peddler's cry.