Super Orchard

Chapter 283
When all the bananas and pineapples were planted, except for a large open space specially reserved in the westernmost part of Jinquan Mountain, there were only two greenhouses left without fruit trees.

These two greenhouses are located on the west side of the pineapple garden. For this last piece of land, Shen Yangguang was very cautious about the choice of fruit trees, so he hadn't thought about it yet, so he planned to wait until next year's spring.

When the last two greenhouses are also planted with fruit trees, the entire Jinquan Valley will be fully planted. If you want to plant fruit trees in the future, you can only choose other places.

It's just that it may not be easy to find a place like Jinquan Valley that is windproof, fertile, and rich in underground springs.

Shen Guangguang is not too worried about this, because almost all the tropical fruits that are common in the market are grown here, and because of the extremely high price, it can basically meet the needs of all fruit shops.

As for ordinary fruits, there are still many varieties in the Jinquan Orchard fruit shop that rely heavily on delivery from suppliers. Therefore, Shen Yangguang plans to focus on the development of ordinary fruits in the future, just like the eastern farmland orchards.

Time passed day by day, and the weather became colder and colder. Before you knew it, the annual New Year's Day came again.

The Jinquan Orchard is also open to receive tourists as usual. Huang Weicheng’s [-]-acre strawberry orchard also sets aside a small part to sell to tourists who come to pick it. Most of the rest are going to be wholesaled to Shen Yangguang and shipped to fruit shops for sale .

The weather this year is very good, not hot and cold like in previous years, so the output of orchards in various places is very good, even the fruit output in Jinquan Orchard is a little more than in previous years, but these fruits used to produce a lot, so More than this is not obvious.

And Huang Weicheng was very happy, because the output of fruits grown in ordinary greenhouses has increased significantly, and it looks like it has increased by about [-] to [-] percent compared to previous years.

But within a few days, Huang Weicheng couldn't laugh anymore, and in a few days, Huang Weicheng felt like crying, because the price of strawberries in the market was getting lower day by day, and Shen Yangguang and Huang Weicheng also had an agreement first, The wholesale price is calculated according to the market price, which is three to five yuan lower than the market price.

At the beginning, strawberries could still maintain the 20 yuan per catty last year, but within a few days it dropped to 15 yuan per catty, and soon dropped to [-] yuan per catty.

It didn't last long at this price, and the price of strawberries hit a new low, down to nine yuan a catty.

However, this is not the end, because over time, the price of strawberries has dropped to eight yuan a catty.

In fact, this price can still earn meager profits, but this is not the case for Huang Weicheng, because the area where he grows strawberries is too large for him to digest, so he has to rely on Shen Yangguang to purchase.

Shen Yangguang is not a philanthropist, he has to earn some money to purchase strawberries to subsidize labor costs, logistics costs, store expenses, etc. Therefore, even if he doesn't want any profit, the current purchase price has fallen below six yuan.

As the price is getting lower and lower day by day, the price of [-] yuan a catty is already very close to Huang Weicheng's planting cost. If it is lower, he will lose money.

This loss has not included the loss of the greenhouse. If it is calculated, it is already a loss of more than six yuan per catty.

The reason for the sharp drop in strawberry prices is not mainly because the harvest of orchards in various places this year is [-] to [-]% higher than in previous years. If there is only this increase in production, although it will affect the price of strawberries in the market, it will not affect so big.

The main reason is that in the past few years, Jinquan Orchard and Hujiacun Orchard vigorously developed sightseeing and picking, which made their respective strawberry famous. Then Huang Weicheng opened a thousand-acre strawberry orchard and made a lot of money.

This has caught the attention of many people. Villagers in the nearby ten miles and eight townships have seen that these orchards are so profitable, many times more profitable than rice cultivation, and they have also started to build greenhouses to grow strawberries.

At the beginning, not many people planted strawberries, and each family planted a small area, so it had little impact on Huang Weicheng's place. However, in the past two years, more and more villages have begun to plant strawberries, especially in summer and autumn this year. With the participation of large-scale farmers, strawberry greenhouses can be seen everywhere in the Northeast Province.

With so many new recruits joining in, and this year’s strawberry harvest is bumper, people have not woken up from the joy of the harvest, but found that the price of strawberries in the market is getting lower every day, and soon they are close to losing money the red line.

The market supply and demand are like this. When the supply is less than the demand, the price will rise, and when the supply is greater than the demand, the price will fall. Only when the supply and demand are in balance, the price will stabilize.

But the balance here is only relative, because there is never an absolute balance between supply and demand in the real market.

This is like the price of the most common pork, which has been cheap and expensive every year for so many years. Even though the country has stepped up efforts to balance the price of pork, it still cannot achieve absolute stability.

The reason for this situation is very similar to the price fluctuations of strawberries here in the Northeast Province, and there is also a deviation between supply and demand.

Normally, the market demand for pork is relatively stable, but the supply is not.

Because the barriers to entry for raising pigs are very low, as far as rural areas are concerned, basically every household can raise a few pigs, those with greater strength can raise dozens of pigs, and enterprises with strong capital can raise tens of thousands of pigs. Difficult.

In this way, when everyone sees the price of pork rising in the market, they will feel that it is profitable, and a large number of people will join the ranks of raising pigs.

It’s just that pig breeding needs a certain period. When the pigs raised by every household can be slaughtered and put on the market, it is discovered that there is too much supply in the market and the price of pork has dropped. Not only can they not make money, they may even lose money.

At this time, a large number of people will withdraw from the ranks of raising pigs. When the next cycle comes, people will find that the price of pork has risen due to too little supply, and many people will join in immediately.

Such repetitions have caused sharp fluctuations in pork prices, because many people like to follow the trend to buy up and not buy down. This is the reason for raising pigs, and it is also the same for growing strawberries.

As far as this year's strawberries are concerned, not only a large number of strawberry greenhouses have appeared in Northeast Province, but also large-scale strawberries have entered the market in surrounding provinces and cities. The price of strawberries is getting lower every day.

It's like ordinary people planting three or two acres of strawberries. Even if they can't make money because the price is too low, they won't lose much. But Huang Weicheng is different here. He has planted a full thousand acres of strawberries, and the labor cost alone is still All kinds of tools, machinery, pesticides and fertilizers are a huge investment, not to mention the depreciation cost of his greenhouse worth more than 1000 million yuan.

This made Huang Weicheng want to cry, and he also knew that the purchase price given by Shen Yangguang was not profitable, because the purchase price given by Jinquan Fruit Store last year was five yuan lower than the market price, and the price given this year Only two bucks below market price.

(End of this chapter)