Halve the price5inchtapereel! It will be healthy!
Author: Dong Tian
Recently, the topic of "Shandong cherry price halved" went viral on Weibo, with some netizens shouting: "originally we talked about eating them, but now we talk about buying them in pots!"
Over the weekend, the reporter conducted a survey of the cherry wholesale and retail market in Beijing and found that a large number of domestic cherry varieties such as "red light" were on the market, and the wholesale and retail prices did fall significantly compared with the previous period.
The reporter learned from the wholesaler of origin that the current wholesale price of "red light" is generally around 6-7 yuan / jin. "precocious domestic cherries are now on the market on a large scale, and the price has dropped somewhat.5inchtapereelSome of our mainstream varieties are not yet ripe, after a while are ripe (re-listed), the price of cherries will continue to fall. " Cherry growers interviewed told reporters.
Enter the picking season
"it has been 15 yuan per jin these days, which is about 60% lower than that of a month ago. Now the main varieties on the market are 'red light' cherries. The price is generally low. " The head of the fruit section of a large supermarket in Beijing told the China Securities News.
Cherry photos of 15 yuan / jin sold in a large supermarket / our reporter Dong Tim
A month ago, the reporter learned that the retail price of cherries in Beijing is generally about 35 yuan / jin to 45 yuan / jin.
According to the reporter, the cherries sold in the Beijing market mainly come from Yantai, Dalian and the local Mentougou.
Sun Xiaocai, a big cherry grower in Fushan, Yantai, told reporters that cherries blossomed in early April, and "red light" and "Meizao" varieties were put on the market earlier. "'Red Light' belongs to the variety with lower price, and the wholesale price of 'Meizao' can reach 15 yuan / jin to 20 yuan / jin. The wholesale price of 'Rabins' listed in the later period can be sold to 10 yuan / jin, and the wholesale price of 'crystal' can reach 20 yuan / jin or so. " Sun Xiaocai said.
"the biggest characteristic of cherries is that the loss is large, the cold chain freight is more expensive, and the retail end basically doubles the wholesale price compared with growers. In recent years, in order to promote sales and increase planting profits, many growers retail high-quality cherries in the form of micro-businesses and micro-stores to ensure the profits of the year. " A grower told the reporter.
The reporter also learned during the visit that the sale of domestic cherries generally came to an end by the end of June. Prior to this, the retail end of the "red light" cherries and other inexpensive varieties will generally fall to about 10 yuan / jin.
However, it is worth mentioning that the reporter saw in fruit supermarkets such as the hundred Orchard that the price of some high-quality domestic cherries is still about 80 yuan / jin, which is comparable to that of high-end cherries in winter.
High-end domestic cherries sold in a fruit supermarket / our reporter Dong Tim
Solve the pain points of the industry
The reporter learned in the interview that there is a common saying in the cherry planting circle that "cherries are delicious, ripe and difficult to pick", that is, after cherries are concentrated on the market, manual picking often fails to keep up with them, and it is easy to rot if they are not picked and sold and transported in time. Previously, growers picked all night, not only the cost is very low, the loss is also very large.
In view of this pain point, many places have opened up a green channel for cherry transportation to help the sales and transportation of characteristic agricultural products.
Since May, cherries in Linfen, Yuncheng and other places in Shanxi Province have entered a high-yield period. Taiyuan Bureau of China Railway and Taiyuan Branch of China Railway Express have made every effort to build a "high-speed rail + fresh" mode to help farmers, and launched cherry high-speed rail express services. let cherry transportation arrive on the same day.
In the early morning of May 24, a Postal Airlines B757 all-cargo plane carrying 21 tons of Yantai cherries took off from Yantai Airport, marking the official opening of the 11th season of "Cherry Flight" in Yantai Airport. The big cherries transported by this all-cargo plane will arrive in Nanjing within two hours, and citizens in the Yangtze River Delta region thousands of miles away will be able to taste the delicious fresh cherries in Yantai within 24 hours. Throughout the cherry season, Yantai Airport is expected to transport more than 5000 tons of cherries.
It is understood that this year, Yantai Airport will cooperate with Shunfeng Airlines, Postal Airlines, and JD.com Airlines to fly "Cherry Flight" with large all-cargo planes. It is expected that more than 130 cherry all-cargo flights will be carried out, and nine cherry all-cargo flights can be carried out during the peak period.