How much is the price of pine nuts per jin in 2019? Why is it more and more expensive?

As the weather gets colder, many people don't want to go out. All kinds of nuts are popular at this time. Pine nuts are one of the most popular nuts at present, so how much is the price of pine nuts in 2019?

I. How much is the price of pine nuts in 2019?

The price of pine nuts in different regions will be different. For example, the wholesale price of wild pine nuts in Qixingguan District, Bijie City, Guizhou Province is about 20 yuan/catty. The wholesale price of wild pine nuts in Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province is about 19.9 yuan/jin. Liaoning Province Dandong City Revitalization District wild pine nut wholesale price is about 35 yuan/catty. Jilin Province Baishan City Fusong County wild pine nut wholesale price is about 40 yuan/catty. These prices are for reference only.

2 Why are the seeds getting more expensive?

1. Low pine yield

Although pine trees are found in the north and south of China, and the planting scale is still very large, the pine trees planted in China are mainly white bark pine and Chinese pine, and their fruits are inedible. Edible pine nuts are mainly produced from red pine trees in the northeast. They have high requirements for living environment. They only grow in the forest and snow fields in the northeast. The pine nuts have a strong smell and are of the best quality in their class.

Moreover, pine nuts have a long planting cycle and will bear fruit after 50 years. If a red pine tree is planted, it will bear fruit after 50 years. Pine nuts generally have a small harvest in three years and a bumper harvest in five years. The yield is different every year. If there is a bumper harvest year, the price of pine nuts will be slightly lower, while if it is a small year, the yield will be affected and the price will be higher.

2. Difficult to pick

The picking of pine nuts is difficult and the labor cost is high. Northeast red pine trees are almost tall trees, each tree is almost dozens of meters high. Manual picking is extremely difficult and dangerous. Pickers climb dozens of meters into trees and then hit them down with poles. Only a few experienced old farmers can do it. Every year to the pine nut harvest season, even in many places high prices can not recruit harvest workers.

3. complicated processing

Most of the red pine trees grow in uninhabited virgin forests. In addition to finding the picking place in advance before picking, the picked pine cones also need to be carried out of the forest manually. After drying, the pine cones are threshed by machines. After threshing, the empty bad pine nuts are removed by air separation and weight selection. Finally, after high temperature opening, it is the pine nuts we usually eat.