Shandong County of Chengwu province by a few years ago garlic garlic, this year's special "gentle", prices fell sharply, a serious slow-moving, bureau monitoring center, the organization of specialized personnel of the county garlic planting area, cost, price, the garlic agriculture income situation in-depth investigation.
I. planting area, cost, and income of garlic
(I) planting area
According to the County Bureau of agriculture statistics, this year Chengwu garlic planting area of 350 thousand acres, 30 thousand acres more than last year, an increase of about 8.6%, the main reason is the increase of last year, the price of garlic garlic farmers is higher, more income, stimulate the original grain does not taste the garlic farmers, to this year, there are some land contractors. Last year saw the garlic is better, on the west to Chengwu township farmers' land contract farmers, planting a large area to expand the area of garlic, garlic.
(two) planting garlic cost;
Garlic per acre according to last year garlic price calculation: garlic 2000 yuan; fertilizer 550 yuan; pesticide 100 yuan; artificial (including collection, kind) 1800 yuan; watering 50 yuan; film 50 yuan, totaling 4550 yuan. The eastern Chengwu Township several consecutive years of planting garlic, lower yield, yield of 2300 Jin, traders at present in the purchase price of 1.5 yuan per Jin, Mu output value of 3450 yuan, loss of one thousand yuan per mu. In previous years, garlic income eight hundred yuan per mu, good income over one thousand yuan this year, an average of 0.15 yuan per Jin garlic, garlic 0.3 yuan per kilogram of labor costs, not only do not sell garlic, but also lose money, labor costs, some garlic farmers directly to the garlic machine don't break, some even throw in the ground or ditch.
(three) purchasing, storage and insurance;
Chengwu enjoys a garlic purchase price this year is 1.1 yuan per Jin last year, enjoys a purchase price is 3.9 yuan per Jin, 71.8% lower than the same period last year. At present, the acquisition of garlic is mainly: to do packaging export; processing garlic rice; export market; warehousing (installed constant temperature Library), warehousing share is very small, less than 10%, farmers sell garlic accounted for 40%--50%.
Two, cause analysis
(1) increasing the planting area;
This is mainly due to a few years ago, especially last year, the price of garlic, a lot of farmers, see the garlic is better, to give up the grain, planted garlic, some farmers even borrow money to buy garlic, garlic to expand the area. There are also many farm contractors who have contracted large numbers of farmers to grow garlic and increase the acreage of garlic
(two) natural factors and high yield;
This year, garlic was not affected by natural disasters and diseases and insect pests. The yield was higher, especially in the new garlic area. The yield of dried garlic was even more than 3500 catties per mu, and the yield was relatively large.
(source: China Economic Herald) [original title: this year, Shandong, Chengwu new garlic prices are very "soft"]