Hickory has become "peach expensive" this year

Yesterday, at 5 o'clock in the morning, the sky was still bright. The villagers of Wang Xinhua, a villager of Shunxi Village, Qingliangfeng Town, Lin’an, had already had breakfast and had snacks and boiling water. After seeing the sky outside, 58-year-old Wang Xinhua said: "It is estimated that it will not rain, let's go."

Yesterday, it was the white dew in the solar term. In Lin'an, there is a well-known proverb: “Bai Luzhi, Zhu Yi Shake, Montreal Gold, Pilgrimage Pick.” Bai Lu is over, it is Lin'an Hickory's opening day. The old Wang of Hickory for a lifetime has naturally begun his most busy work of the year - playing pecans.

Before the formal opening on the 10th, the reporter came to the main producing area of ​​Lin'an Pecan yesterday and learned about the market conditions. Affected by the “cold spring” last year, Lin’an’s pecans have reduced output by about 40%. This year, the weather is good, and the increase in production is expected to be around 50% year-on-year, which means that the output is still slightly higher than the normal year.

Although it is a big year, but consumers want to taste fresh pecans this year, still have to look for more money, because this year pecans from the purchase price, processing price to the retail price is still all the way bullish, has been called pecans "Peach expensive" .

Processing households: 24 hours to open the door and others to come to the door to buy more than 4 o'clock in the morning, like the farmer who played with the hickory walnuts already waiting for the hickory there is a group of people, they are the acquisition of traffickers and processing households.

On the day when Hickory was opened, Hu Guibiao of Changhua White Cow Hougou Village could barely sleep. He and the other family had a hickory acquisition and processing site in Bai Niu. The preliminary processing of fresh pecans such as Wang Xinhua farmers just plucked from the hills, they manage this kind of pecan without any processing Called "Pu".

Changhua White Cattle, the distribution center of the "Pu" in the Lin'an area, has concentrated more than twenty processing points similar to Hu Guibiao. On the day of the opening ceremony, Hu Guibiao stayed at the processing site 24 hours a day, waiting for farmers and traffickers to send “Pu”. Here, "Pu" is peeled and sieved by the machine and processed into waterseeds. Of course, Hu Guibiao is also considered to be a hickory trader, because the hickory processed into waterseeds here will be sold to the hickory factory.

On the third day, the reporter went to Hu Guibiao's processing site. The peeling machine was already struggling with the roaring sound. Many households feel that these traffickers and processing households are very profitable, because the “Pu” sold to them is only worth 4 to 5 yuan/kg.

"I feel that there is a lot of price difference? In fact, we must calculate the discount, and you will understand." The so-called "bread" is the discount on the weight of Hickory after processing. Hu Guibiao calculated that for the reporter, the "folding" of a group of "Pu" he had collected yesterday was about 25 percent. This is a not too high figure, equivalent to a hundred pounds of "Pu" collected from the shell. After screening, only about 25 pounds of waterseeds can be made.

Hu Guibiao said that under this kind of fold, nearly 5 yuan / kg of "Pu", the initial processing into water seeds, at least need to sell nearly 20 yuan / kg to not lose money. "We earn hard-earned money and we must also look for market trends." Hu Guibiao said that last year's small year production was small, prices were high, and he finally made a few tens of thousands of yuan. This year's market is still unclear. Although the purchase price is even higher than the beginning of last year, it is worried that prices will move downwards.

Dealer: After the inventory is finished early, new orders have been queued for waterseeds processed from the white cattle and other transaction centers, and will eventually flow to the hickory processing plant. There, waterseeds naturally dry into dried seeds for at least 3 days, and then they are steamed, dried and seasoned to make finished products. After this series of processing steps, the value of the finished hickory still has to rise a lot.

Last year, Linan City Tianci Food Factory, which processed more than 700,000 kilograms, was ranked as the top Hickory Enterprise in Changhua. The owner, Ge Yaming, was well-known locally. More than 3 in the morning, he also stayed in the factory to receive the pounds.

"10 days to receive 40 to 500,000 kilograms, relying on the factory to collect, impossible." Ge Yaming told reporters that the reason to catch so many goods, mainly due to the small year last year, the output is small, so many The hickory factory's hickory stocks have been processed very early, and his factory has been out of stock in June and July, while downstream customers' orders have been accumulating. Therefore, as soon as this year began, many manufacturers have already found outside dealers to receive goods. This is an important reason why the purchase price of waterseeds this year is higher than last year.

The waterseeds are much more expensive, and why the price of finished products has also increased by nearly doubled, and Ge Yaming calculated the accounts for the reporter. After harvesting 19 yuan/kg of waterseeds, he collected about 30 percent of the weight of dried seeds after drying and screening empty rice dumplings. The price of dried seeds reached 27 yuan/kg; after drying seeds, they were steamed and dried. Also make a 20 percent discount, the price is about 33.9 yuan / kg, and then count the labor costs, ingredients, fuel and other costs nearly 2 yuan / kg, the final price will definitely be set to 36 yuan / kg or more, "a pound also Earn a dollar or two." After these products are processed and packaged with logistics links and other expenses, this year's hungry pecans sold to consumers must be at least 40 yuan/kg.

Physical work + technology live for an hour can not hit 10 pounds of pecans began at 6 o'clock in the morning more than yesterday morning, Qingliangfeng Town Shunxi village on the hill, Manshan Hickory bushes, walnuts are everywhere to play the figure.

Wang Xinhua's family of hickory forests is located on the mountainside and walks along the slopes for about half an hour. However, this was not too difficult for 58-year-old Wang Xinhua. After going under his own hickory tree, he skilfully climbed the tree and stepped on the center of the two trunks, accurately hitting the branches with pecans, not He would drop a lot of hickory in the ground for a while, and his wife would squat in the back. “This year's weather is good, so not only the output is high, but this year's quality of pecans should be considered as good and the quality can be sold at a high price.” Wang Xinhua told reporters happily for a while, his family’s hundreds of mountains this year. The output of walnut trees is estimated to be about 50% more than last year.

Do not look Hickory is not very big, but generally grow on a hill with a little slope, climbing up and playing is a tired and dangerous live. Steel nails have been hit on the tree, like a first-class step. The reporter cautiously climbed the trunk that was seven or eight meters high. After holding the bamboo raft for less than an hour, he was tired and breathless. He hadn't hit 10 pounds. “Playing Hickory is not only an individual task, but also a technical activity. So when we started playing Linan Hickory, we would hire the people in Anhui to help hick the hickory.” Wang Xinhua played for a while, he took a rest and he was not aged. Raise people. This year, although her daughter and son-in-law also took leave to help, but the staff is still not enough, because this year I could not help the workers from Anhui.

Wang Xinhua told reporters that in the past, Anhui had been playing pecans every year since the end of August. After Lin’an opened, there were many laborers who came to Lin’an for short-term workers to help hickory walnuts. However, this year Anhui Hickory won't open until September 10, so it is particularly difficult to hire workers. “A pair of husbands and wives, one hit and one lie, this year the outside offer price to 500 yuan / day, the key still can not recruit people." Lao Wang remembered clearly that last year this price is less than 400 yuan / day, also three years ago Less than half now. Lao Wang had calculated that one day, this pair of hired workers was estimated to be capable of hitting more than 1,000 kilos of pecans. Therefore, the price of pecans in the past two years was affected by fluctuations in output. The increase in labor costs was an important reason for rising prices. And this price continues to look bullish.