The market is so unfathomable for vegetable farmers. Every time sowing, sometimes it's like a gamble. In the interview, reporters were pleased with these vegetable farmers, and in these ups and downs, there is no problem of ensuring certain income. However, for a chain of thousands of people's food basket, the healthy development of these economic individuals is very important at the terminal. Vegetable farmers need to be in line with the market, but the reporters found that vegetable farmers did not adapt themselves to such roles in the course of vegetable farmers entering the market.
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The butterfly effect in the vegetable field
Two months ago, no one had expected that the spring cold, which was not met for many years, would have had such a great impact on the farmers' market in Dalian.
Stick cucumber, also known as "ground cucumber", is another "fist" variety of zhujiacun. Sister Zhu, the old stick of Cucumber in the farm, has excellent reputation in the village. This is the result of her meticulous service. "If you don't talk about planting, you must pay attention to it." While he was busy collecting cucumber, he said to the reporters, "Dalian people will eat it. This cucumber is about the size and shape of the palm. A little skew, or pick up slowly, and grow a little bigger, that has become junk goods, can not sell price. This cucumber grows fast at night, so Zhu Da Jie has to know the size of the cucumbers in this shed, which will have to be picked in the early morning of a seedling, which must be two days before the seedling.
How can it be meticulous, if it is not favorable to heaven, it is also in vain. "The temperature difference is too big recently, the temperature difference is big, cucumber rolls." Sister Zhu painfully pulled out a long cucumber hook like cucumber, "this way, it can not be sold." Zhu's elder sister uses a cold shed to grow cucumbers. The cost of this cold shed is low, but the effect of heat preservation is not as good as that of a greenhouse. "This year is cool, this cucumber is not good, last year, two acres of greenhouse, one day can pick up more than 300 catties of cucumber, this year we can pick up at least more than 200 Jin." Sister Zhu said, "last year, at least one of the seedlings can be picked. Now you see, where can we pick this plant?"
The reduction is not the most terrible. If the price is right, it means making less money. But the problem is that the hot spring cucumber in Wafangdian City is also damaged. "In the past, it was the advanced market of greenhouse cucumber in Wafangdian City, and the cucumber fell off the seedlings. The cold shed cucumber was on the market, and all could sell a good price." Zhu Da sister said, "this day this day is cold, the greenhouse cucumber in Wafangdian City also delayed, just dragged to the market with us, the result is too large, the price will not go."
On the farmers' market in Dalian, the best stick cucumber is priced at 2 yuan to 2.5 yuan, compared with 4 yuan last year. In the greenhouses of zhujiacun, the best cucumbers last year were about 1.6 yuan, and this year they fell to 1.1 yuan.
In the same village, Lao Zhang also had cucumbers, but his experience was not as good as that of Zhu. "This year, it is estimated that cucumbers are lost." He said.
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The market is so close
And so far away
Sister Zhu will not swear in a rage like many cabbage growers two years ago: they will never grow cucumbers again. After years of struggling in vegetable fields, she is mentally prepared and able to cope with fluctuations in these markets. Besides, cucumbers don't worry about how much they can earn. However, she felt sad about the helpless farmers facing the market changes. "I really don't know." She said, "I can only think of ways to grow vegetables, pay more, earn more and earn less."
Even this year, Chinese cabbage, in the year before the plunge, after last year's big rise, many people dare not to plant Chinese cabbage again, but this year, Chinese cabbage is rising again, the Chinese cabbage will be made. This is a problem a lot of people are studying, how to avoid "vegetables and hurt people, vegetables and hurt farmers", a kind of attempt is to make vegetable farmers closer to the market, such as agricultural super docking; for example, setting up the weekend vegetable market to let vegetable farmers go directly into the city and sell vegetables. In this way, the intermediate links will be reduced, the vegetable prices will be reduced, and the sales will be smooth.
Zhujiacun is a demonstration of agricultural super docking in our city. In 2011, the first agricultural super docking base was set up here. A large supermarket chain group in our city picked green vegetables throughout the year. Vegetable farmers quickly tasted the sweet, the year, the low price of Chinese cabbage, vegetable traders to collect cabbage, a Jin to 0.25 yuan, and the supermarket group's direct price, but the 0.45 yuan to protect the vegetable farmers. The enthusiasm of the vegetable growers is very high, and the local supermarket group has reached an agreement that vegetables will be supplied throughout the year.
Soon, there were fewer peddler who used to find vegetables in the past, and the farmers were willing to supply the dishes directly to the supermarket. The middle link of the circulation of vegetables was actually reduced.
But the problem is very fast. One is that it is difficult to reach the level of vegetable supply all the year round. "We are all cold sheds, after eleven, we don't have a lot of food." A staff member of seven Dingshan Street told reporters, "besides, maybe the thought of small farmers is doing something wrong. Vegetable farmers are playing tricks on supermarkets." There is a collection of potatoes. The potatoes are big and the quality is good. After harvest, some vegetable farmers began filling small potatoes or defective products. Gradually, the reputation of the vegetable growers was hit, and the supermarket did not come.
As a result, vegetable traders were active again in the locals, and vegetable farmers were accustomed to fighting with vegetable dealers. "This vegetable dealer, on the one hand, he did help vegetable farmers sell vegetables. But on the other hand, they are familiar with each other and can easily control prices collectively. When they talk about it, the cucumbers cost 1.1 yuan, then the price of the cucumbers is set at 1.1 yuan. The vegetable growers could not afford to wait, so they had to sell them at the price of the vegetable dealers. The worker said.
C
Another attempt
Distribution and deep processing
Any reform and attempt can not avoid some detours. For the vegetable farmers, the process of going to the market must pass through these three stages, one is self-produced and sell themselves, and they sell themselves. This model is now very few; two is the vegetable dealer in the place to receive food, at present, this is still the mainstream model. The three is agricultural super docking, this mode is still in the exploratory stage.
In order to solve the problem of vegetable farmers entering the market, various attempts are being made at the local level. According to the staff, this year, Mei Jia village of seven Dingshan Street will build cold chain vegetable processing and distribution center. The distribution center, which covers an area of 20 mu, has an annual capacity of 11 thousand tons. The products directly correspond to supermarkets, offices, schools and large food enterprises in the city. "The annual output of vegetables in seven Dingshan street is about 130 thousand tons." The staff member said, "the distribution center will digest nearly 1/10 of the output and make the vegetable farmers enter the market more smoothly." It is estimated that the distribution center will be formally put into operation in June this year.
At the same time, the work of the agricultural super docking is still continuing. In the face of more and more sales channels, facing the increasingly close market position, the ability of vegetable farmers to adapt to the market needs to be improved. "In the past, we only had to find ways to introduce new varieties and new technologies, to study how to grow good dishes, and the rest to vegetable traders." A vegetable farmer said to the reporter, "now really have to change, also have to say credit, research market, open the horizon like dry business, otherwise the supermarket has been gas run, the road is blocked, when there are difficulties, who will go?"