Why are there so few bayberries this year?

"Ordinary bayberry is about ten yuan a catty, and fine bayberry is thirty or forty yuan, not to mention some rare varieties." It's a good idea for many people to eat some red bayberries on a muggy Huangmei day. However, at present, the price difference of Yangmei is too big for many people to understand. "The price of quality fruit is definitely high." Sun Jun, chief fruit expert of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, said that the fruit setting rate of Myrica rubra in our province this year is lower than that in previous years. Coupled with the popularization of Myrica rubra planting technology to avoid rain, the fruit quality of Myrica rubra is better than in previous years, and the price of high-quality fruit will definitely rise steadily. Small quantity and good quality. Yangmei is on sale. Yangmei is dotted with red. On rainy days, Zheng Fudi of Fudi Yangmei Professional Cooperative in Xianju West Road quickly picked Dongkui Yangmei, which was still hanging on the tree, packed it and planned to transport it to Shanghai. "This year, the mature weather of Yangmei is good. The alternation of sunny and rainy days is conducive to the improvement of bayberry quality, but the output is less than last year and the price is much higher than last year. " According to Zheng Fudi, the price of this batch of exquisite Dongkui Yangmei shipped to Shanghai is about RMB 0/00 per catty, which is equivalent to RMB 8 per Yangmei. In Xilu Bayberry Market, the wholesale price of good quality bayberry this year is above 30 yuan per catty, while last year's prices were only 17 and 18 yuan. When the output of Myrica rubra declines, the price will inevitably rise. According to the investigation by the Provincial Department of Agriculture, the fruit-setting rate of Myrica rubra this year is lower than that in previous years due to the abnormal weather during flowering, and the estimated output is 430,000 tons, which is more than 10% lower than last year. In some producing areas, the yield reduction of some varieties of Myrica rubra is more serious. Zhao Xingyang, a bayberry grower in Jinshan Community, Bai Quan Town, Dinghai, told reporters that this year is a "special year" for late rice bayberry. Due to the abnormal climate in Zhoushan in the first half of this year, the temperature in the bud stage of Myrica rubra was low, the light was less, and the flowering stage was warm and sunny, which led to the "same period" of Myrica rubra. The new buds at the top of the branches grow rapidly, competing with Myrica rubra for nutrients. In the end, Myrica rubra was defeated, resulting in a yield reduction of more than 50% compared with last year. The yield is low, but the price of late rice bayberry has soared to the sky. "We have received orders and prepayments from customers in Hangzhou and Shanghai. The agreed price is above 200 yuan per catty, which is several times that of previous years. The reason is that the yield of bayberry in late rice is very small. " Zhao Xingyang said. In recent years, through the popularization of standardized planting techniques of Myrica rubra, the output of Myrica rubra in our province has been relatively stable, and the price has increased slightly every year. However, this year's weather conditions are somewhat special, and the output of Myrica rubra is high, especially for special varieties such as late rice Myrica rubra and crystal Myrica rubra, and the price naturally goes up. Out of Zhejiang, You Guo is sold all over the country. Another reason for the high price of bayberry is that it is delicate and difficult to preserve, so bayberry sold on land is often expensive after long-distance transportation. In recent years, Zhejiang Yangmei has been trying to "walk out" of the Yangtze River Delta, on the one hand, the rapid development of e-commerce; On the other hand, the preservation technology of Myrica rubra is more and more advanced. Jiang, a Myrica rubra grower in Qingtian, told a reporter a story: A few years ago, a Nanjing businessman ordered a batch of Myrica rubra from him. He put them in a foam box, added ice cubes and handed them to the guests carefully. But after Yangmei arrived in Nanjing the next day, the water quality had deteriorated and the guests were very dissatisfied. Jiang had to refund the money for the customer. "For the preservation technology of Yangmei, we have invested hundreds of thousands of yuan to upgrade the base and packaging workshop, and built a professional Yangmei fresh-keeping cold storage, forming a unified packaging process of sorting, precooling, vacuum packaging, icing and packing." Jiang said that the breakthrough of technology made the preservation time of bayberry reach 22 days. Qingtian Yangmei not only parachuted into the whole country, but also began to go global. "My bayberry is famous at home and abroad, and many people buy more than a dozen baskets at a time." Jiang said that a friend brought his bayberry to Spain and Italy, and foreigners liked it very much. "A pound of bayberry can sell for fifty or sixty euros." Coincidentally, SF, Suning and other logistics platforms and e-commerce companies also took a fancy to the high-quality Yangmei in Zhejiang. In May this year, SF Express signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xianju county government in Beijing, and promoted fresh bayberry to the whole country through the fast logistics system of SF Express. Li, vice president of SF Express, said that SF Express, an online e-commerce platform under SF Express, is preferred, and offline community stores SF Home and SF Hackers will provide a promotion and sales platform for Xianju Yangmei, which can be sold through online and offline omni-channel and cold chain circulation. Fresh bayberry can reach the whole country from Xianju in 24 hours. Myrica rubra as a medium makes it a big industry. Myrica rubra in the world comes from China, and Myrica rubra in China comes from Zhejiang. Zhejiang was originally the origin of Myrica rubra. In 2002, our province implemented the regional planning of superior agricultural products, including bayberry industry, with key support. As the industrial center of Myrica rubra, Zhejiang Myrica rubra has been ranked first in China in variety technology, area, yield, postpartum preservation, storage and transportation. "R&D" is presided over by Professor Chen Kunsong of Zhejiang University; D, Yangmei warehousing logistics core technology integrated application "won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award. As Myrica rubra gradually left Zhejiang, it brought great benefits to fruit farmers in Zhejiang. At present, the planting area of Myrica rubra accounts for 26.8% of the total fruit area in the province, but the output value accounts for 28.7% of the total fruit output, ranking second in fruit output. Taking Yangmei as the medium, all localities organically combine Yangmei industry with traditional culture and leisure tourism, and carefully hold Yangmei cultural festivals, picking tours and other activities. Provincial Department of Agriculture, Lanxi and Qingtian also specially organized Myrica rubra growers to hold promotion meetings in Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places, further expanding the industrial function and market space of Myrica rubra. "Myrica rubra has been on the market for a short time, and it is really remarkable that it can produce such great benefits in such a short time. "Sun Jun said that in order to develop Myrica rubra industry, the agricultural department of our province has actively demonstrated and promoted the applicable technology of Myrica rubra 10 for more than 0 years, and carried out demonstration and promotion of production technologies such as adjusting fruit and year, dwarfing and high yield, integrated pest control and rainproof cultivation. In Yuyao, Lanxi and other places, the agricultural sector has also implemented the establishment of modern agricultural leading industrial parks and the construction of standardized bases, and issued policies to support Yangmei bases. There are more than 500 Yangmei professional cooperatives in the province, and the Yangmei industry has driven many fruit farmers in mountainous areas to increase their income and get rich. At present, the planting area of Myrica rubra in the province is 6.5438+0.34 million mu, and it is estimated that the output value will reach more than 4 billion yuan under the condition of reducing production this year.