Forecast of the price trend of wax gourd in 2020: will prices soar? What are the planting prospects?

Wax gourd is planted all over the country, is one of the vegetables with a very high national degree, can also be used as a variety of candy, wax gourd can also be used as medicine, then the price trend of wax gourd in 2020 is predicted: will the price soar? What are the planting prospects?

I. Forecast of price trend of wax gourd in 2020

Although wax gourd is one of the common vegetables, the price of wax gourd is relatively low in recent years. Because the national planting area of wax gourd decreased sharply in 2015, the price of wax gourd increased sharply, and then because farmers saw the price of wax gourd rise, leading to a large number of farmers planting wax gourd, the price is constantly falling.

The price of wax gourd in 2019 is not very good, the wholesale price is between 1-3 yuan. It is expected that the price of wax gourd in 2020 should not be much different from that in 2019, unless there are major natural and man-made disasters. Although the price of wax gourd is not high, but the national degree is very high, but also very resistant to storage, planting wax gourd is still a very good choice.

Second, what are the planting prospects of wax gourd?

Wax gourd is a good storage-resistant vegetable with low planting cost, high yield, rich nutrients, storage and transportation resistance, strong heat resistance, white meat, crisp and juicy, and is a good raw material suitable for the processing of modern agricultural products. Wax gourd has been more and more widely used in the processing of all kinds of new foods and health care crystals, which is a good way to increase value for vegetables with high yield and low price.

These values and very high national degree of wax gourd lead to the prospect of planting wax gourd is very good. If you don't know what to grow in the countryside, wax gourd is a good choice.

What varieties of wax gourd are planted?

Wax gourd varieties can be divided into large fruit type and small fruit type according to the size of fruit. According to the mature sooner or later, there are early-maturing and late-maturing species. According to the presence or absence of pericarp wax powder, it can also be divided into powder peel species and green peel species.

Small fruit wax gourd: precocious or precocious. The node of the first female flower occurs at about the 10th node, and some varieties (such as a string of bolls in Beijing) occur in the 3rd-5th nodes. The fruit is small, oblate, subround or oblong. The fruit is covered with wax powder or without wax powder. The number of fruits per plant, tender fruit for food, fruit weight 2-5 kg, the main varieties are a string of bolls in Beijing, Chengdu, Sichuan five leaves, Nanjing early wax gourd, Taiwan round wax gourd.

Large fruit type wax gourd: medium or late maturity, the main vine usually produces the first female flower in 15 nodes, and then one or two female flowers occur every 5-6 nodes. The fruit shape is large, usually the single fruit weighs 10-20 kg (or more). Short cylindrical or long cylindrical, the pericarp is turquoise or covered with white wax powder, most of them leave one fruit per plant and harvest mature fruit mainly. Varieties include Guangdong green-skinned wax gourd, gray-skinned wax gourd, cattle spleen wax gourd, Hunan powder-skinned wax gourd, Longquan wax gourd, Jiangxi Yangzizhou wax gourd, Taiwan's green-shell wax gourd, white-shell wax gourd, Sichuan wax gourd, Shanghai white-skinned wax gourd, Beijing wax gourd and so on.