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Chapter 66 Selling Vegetables
Spinach grows fast.

Time flies, and the greenhouses No. 1-5 are almost ready for harvesting.

Chen Mo was the first to give these sheds to Lingquan.

Chen Mo has already contacted Liu Ying's father.

Early in the morning, Chen Mo drove to the farm after receiving a call from Cheng Tang.

"My father-in-law." Cheng Tang introduced Chen Mo.

"Uncle Liu." Chen Mo shouted.

Liu Run smiled and nodded: "Is the water spinach coming out?"

"It should be ready for sale." Chen Mo said, "Go over and have a look."

Today is the 20th, that is to say, it has been less than a month since these water spinach were planted.

The height of spinach seedlings is about 25 cm on average.These are the first batch of water spinach. The stalks of the water spinach are a bit small, and they look very tender.

Liu Run went over to pick a few and chewed them twice: "The current wholesale price of water spinach is 1-1.3 yuan. Your water spinach is very tender, but the stem is too small, and you can grow it for a while."

"There are a lot of water spinach here, and I will sell it later. Pick some in advance, so that I can get familiar with the process of selling vegetables." Chen Mo said: "If there are a large number of them on the market, I'm afraid I will be in a hurry."

Liu Run looked next to these sheds.The growth of water spinach in these greenhouses is very different.

The water spinach with the worst growth, the height of the seedlings is about 15 cm.

Liu Run made a rough calculation, and the amount of water spinach to be produced in 5 greenhouses is still very large.He only has one car, Dongfeng Duolika D6-M, a 4.2-meter-long light truck.It's a van...

Water spinach is cheap and the profit is not high.

If a car is full, it will weigh at most three or four thousand catties.

"How much are you prepared to pay?" Liu Run asked.

"How much?" Chen Mo asked.

"One car a day, three to four thousand catties."

"7.5 cents." Chen Mo said.

In the past few days, Chen Mo has also contacted other vegetable vendors. The prices are 6 cents, 7 cents, 8 cents, and some even give 9 cents.

For sixty-seven cents, you need a large quantity.

It's only eighty-nine cents, which is a small amount.

"Wait for me to make a call." Liu Run went to the side and made a call for more than ten minutes.

"7.5 cents, so cheap?" Cheng Tang said, "Can you make money? Hiring people to pick these vegetables requires a lot of labor costs."

"The water spinach nowadays is not expensive." Chen Mo said helplessly.If harvested in large quantities, 7.5 cents is not cheap.

The water spinach on his side is very tender, crisp and delicious.But no matter how good the water spinach is, it is still water spinach...

And he didn't only have a few acres, but sixty acres, and he wanted to sell it at a high price, but no one offered it.At the very least, you need to have word of mouth in the future before you can sell it at a relatively good price.

Liu Run made a phone call for more than ten minutes and came over and said: "I've covered all the water spinach here. The price will follow the market price...the first batch is 8 cents per catty."

Chen Mo nodded: "Are these vegetables sold in Donglin?"

"I know some people who are in the vegetable business and will send some to other cities. Now arrange for people to pick them, and we will come over to load the goods in the evening. Is it too late?"

Chen Mo called Master Huang over.

There are five greenhouses, one greenhouse is 400 square meters.Harvesting these water spinach is not done one by one by hand, but with a sickle, harvested in batches, and then sorted...

Master Huang had never made water spinach before, so he roughly calculated the area of ​​the five greenhouses and the manpower needed. After calling to confirm the number of people, he said: "No problem."

Liu Run said: "These water spinach are very tender, so you only need to remove some bottom leaves. Try to keep the young leaves as much as possible... Otherwise, remove too many leaves and the weight will be light."

Chen Mo nodded.

Liu Run picked some water spinach and showed Chen Mo a demonstration...

"Are you going to the city later?" Cheng Tang asked.

"Go."

"Then I'll take your car back later. Dad, I'll play here for a while."

Liu Run nodded: "I'll go back first and discuss it with the others."

After Liu Run left, Cheng Tang said, "How many kilograms does this greenhouse weigh?"

Normally, water spinach planted in holes can yield more than 1000 to 2000 kilograms per acre.

Chen Mo's water spinach is actually not ready to be harvested yet.And for the first harvest, 2-3 knots should be left at the base.

A greenhouse is 1 square meters, which is 400 acres.

Chen Mo's estimate: "It should be 500 kilograms. Master Huang, how many people have you invited?"

"10 people." Master Huang said: "There are 5 greenhouses. I don't know how many people are needed to collect these water spinach, so I called 10 people to come over. The wages will be discussed after they come over."

If there are 10 people, then you can't make much money selling these hollow cores.

"These water spinach should wait a few more days, they are still too small now." Master Huang said.Now these water spinach are just at the time when they are gaining weight, so it is not cost-effective to sell them now.

"Sell some first and streamline the process of selling vegetables so that you don't have to worry when large quantities come out." Chen Mo also wanted to calculate the labor costs.If the cost of manual harvesting is too high, be prepared to get a machine.Take some time out.

"Also."

After a while, a group of women rode over.

In rural areas, when it comes to mowing grass, harvesting wheat, and harvesting vegetables, women work faster than men, and much faster.

Wait for someone to come over, explain today's work, negotiate a price, 150 yuan per person per day, and then start working.

"When are you going to the city?" Cheng Tang asked.

"Afternoon. Are you in a hurry to go back?" Chen Mo looked at Cheng Tang,
"Don't worry, I worked overtime last night and made the cake." Cheng Tang said.

"Then after lunch." Chen Mo checked the time, it was now 08:30.

The people Master Huang called were all rural women who were good at working. They brought their own kitchen knives and started harvesting water spinach after entering the greenhouse.

The water spinach was harvested neatly, about 20 centimeters. This length is a bit short, and the slivers are thin...

These guys work fast.

As Chen Mo watched, Master Huang was also calculating.

10 people, 5 greenhouses, approximately 3 acres.

There is sunshine today, harvest some water spinach, and then send these water spinach to the warehouse.

In one morning, three greenhouses were collected.

10 people were invited, plus Master Huang, there were 11 people.

After lunch, Chen Mo went home and packed eels, and set off for the city: "10 people, 1500 yuan. That Master Huang should also be counted as salary?"

Chen Mo shrugged.

“8毛钱1斤，一个大棚500斤，总共就是2500斤……刚好2000元钱。你能赚多少？”程唐又道。

"Judging from the harvest in the morning, a greenhouse weighs more than 500 catties." Chen Mo said, "I think it should weigh more than 600 catties. The first crop of water spinach, which hasn't grown yet, will definitely make money in the future. Don't worry. ..."

"When will the second crop of water spinach be harvested?"

"Ten or twenty days." A whole batch of water spinach is usually harvested every twenty days.

If you only harvest young shoots, that is, you don’t need a sickle, you can pick them by hand...you can harvest them once every eight or nine days.

The efficiency of manual picking is too slow, and these water spinach is cheap, not worth it.

If you grow water spinach in rural areas and sell it yourself, it is usually picked by hand.

"Yesterday Liu Ying went to the supermarket and bought a handful of water spinach for 7 yuan." Cheng Tang said: "The wholesale price is only 8 cents."

Chen Mo smiled and glanced at Cheng Tang: "Your father-in-law doesn't make money."

"The supermarket is too dark. Things that cost just a few cents have increased tenfold in price," Cheng Tang said.

"Your cake shop is not outside the vegetable market. Go to the vegetable market to buy it. How much does a kilogram of water spinach cost at the vegetable market?"

"Two or three yuan per catty."

Now many people are shouting that money is not easy to earn.

Those who work cannot make money, and those who are bosses, especially in agriculture, are really not very profitable.

Chen Mo is now looking forward to the price increase of water spinach after the weather gets colder.Then the output of water spinach can go up...

The first batch of water spinach is to find out how many people are needed to pick water spinach and the process of selling it.

"By the way, how much is your eel?" Cheng Tang asked.

"My eels are priceless."

"Get lost..." Cheng Tang laughed angrily, "I'm talking about the eel in the box."

"120 yuan per catty." Chen Mo said.

"So expensive?"

"My eels are big, and they are basically catty eels."

“It’s still okay to raise eels.”

Chen Mo nodded: "Next year I plan to raise more eels."

Fish farming is exhausting.

Raising eels is easy.Chen Mo usually threw some dead white fish in the eels in the orchard and never fed them.In more than two years, he has grown to about 1 pound, which is quite good.

(End of this chapter)