Gardening experts talk about succulent plants. What do you think of succulent plants in China in the future?

Meat-rich producers should not blindly pursue quantity, but should work hard on product quality, produce high-quality products according to market demand, and dealers should produce highly personalized goods without being influenced by market fluctuations. In the future, the development of succulent plant planting enterprises depends on standardized and industrialized production and management, and at the same time, they rely on their own excellent varieties to win the market.

I. Scale: Annual production capacity of 50 million pots in main production area, 41609 Taobao stores

"The network is the biggest push behind the popularity of succulent plants", Wu Fanglin first reflected the fiery meat market with network data: input "succulent plants", search results reached more than 568,000, there is a multi-pulp plant paste bar in Baidu paste bar, 450,000 users have posted more than 11.3 million posts.

Taobao now has 41609 stores selling succulents, up from 2700 in August 2013, many of which are new to the business. The number of succulent plant products on Taobao has increased from more than 10,000 three years ago to 533,800 at present. Among them, there are 17219 shops dealing in various kinds of succulent plants and 11402 shops dealing in succulent planting pots.

"It is conservatively estimated that the planting area of China's main meat-producing areas is 8000 mu (excluding cacti), and it is still expanding." Wu Fanglin introduced that succulent plants currently have an annual production capacity of 50 million pots, an annual market demand of 100 million pots and an annual output value of 500 million yuan. It is estimated that by 2018, the market demand will reach 500 million pots, the contradiction between supply and demand is prominent, and the supply of succulent plants is in short supply.

II. Production areas: Fujian, Guangdong, large-scale production, Shanghai, Beijing, Shandong, rich varieties

Wu Fanglin introduced, At present, Domestic succulent plant production areas are mainly concentrated in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Shandong, Beijing, Tianjin and other places, Some do popular products, To batch production mainly; Some pay attention to high-end products, Take the fine line.

Fujian and Guangdong often carry out commercial and large-scale production, and the products are dominated by cactus plants; producers in Shanghai, Beijing, Shandong and other places often plant small scale, but rich in varieties, and the atmosphere of succulent plant lovers is strong and the market is active.

III. Six major problems of domestic succulent plant industry

1. Rich and well-established producers do not understand succulent plants

Most of the producers with a certain scale are traditional flower enterprises such as Phalaenopsis and Anthurium. The working time is no more than three years, and the understanding of succulent plants is shallow. Some farmers who have been employed for more than three years and have experienced the low point of China's meat market have large scale and sufficient experience, but they pay little attention to product quality.

2. Young people who know how to eat meat have no money to compete with big families. A small number of enthusiasts turned into producers, but because of various reasons such as capital, few practitioners reached a certain scale. Although they were familiar with succulent plant varieties, they lacked market operation experience.

3. The quality and quantity of imported products have been seriously affected, and the contradiction between supply and demand in the market is prominent. Since September 2014, Zhengzhou, Henan Province alone, has continuously intercepted more than 3000 succulent plants from South Korea and Italy. So far, only one or two companies have approval to import meat from South Korea.

4. At present, many domestic meat-rich producers have no planting experience before entering the industry, and most of the planting varieties are market-oriented. What varieties are easy to sell in the market will be planted, and most of them will be self-expanded after domestication of introduced varieties. Therefore, the varieties are identical and the quality is not uniform.

5. The growth cycle of succulent plants is long, most varieties will dormancy in summer or winter, spring and autumn are both production season and sales season, some people blindly enter the industry, do not arrange production well, miss sales season, and are not skilled in technology, they will lose their money.

6. At present, the research field of succulent plants in China is still in the initial stage. In recent years, some botanical gardens and succulent operators in Beijing, Shanghai, Shandong, Xiamen, Tianjin and other places have begun to carry out research on cross breeding and tissue culture. We hope that in the near future, we can have our own meat products into the market.

Suggestion: Standardized and industrialized production, excellent varieties win the market

Wu Fanglin suggested that the future development of succulent plant planting enterprises depends on standardized and industrialized production and management, and at the same time depends on their own excellent varieties to win the market.

Therefore, it is hoped that meat producers will not blindly pursue quantity, work hard on product quality, produce high-quality products according to market demand, and dealers will produce highly personalized goods without being affected by market fluctuations. Although succulent plants belong to "small-cap stocks", China's market is huge, so to speak, far beyond the imagination of all practitioners.