In previous years, the price of 1.5 yuan/kg shallots has been reduced to 0.5 yuan/kg this year, but it still can’t be sold. Seeing dozens of acres of vegetables rotting in the ground, Yu Hanglian began to sigh.
"(The epidemic) has been going on for three years, and it is not as sad as this year." On the morning of November 15th, Yu Hang, from Zhifang Town, Ruzhou City, Henan Province, said in an interview with the First Financial Reporter that although the epidemic broke out in Wuhan three years ago, it had an impact on vegetable sales all over the country, but Ruzhou City at that time was not a key area of the epidemic, foreign merchants could still purchase goods at the local vegetable wholesale market, and large trucks from other places could normally enter and leave Ruzhou with relevant certificates, so local vegetable sales were not greatly affected, but this year, the local vegetable sales were not greatly affected.
annoyed
Yu Hang told CBN that Zhifang Town, where he lives, is a big vegetable town. This year, more than 200,000 mu of vegetables have been planted in the town. According to the plan, 3.5 million kilograms of shallots, 930,000 kilograms of spinach, 510,000 kilograms of radishes, 3.17 million kilograms of parsley and other vegetable categories can be produced.
In previous years, these vegetables, which cost hundreds of thousands of kilograms, were the main source of income for farmers in Zhifang Town, including Yuhang, but this year, they have become their biggest worry.
Also facing the troubles of unsalable vegetables are the vegetable farmers in Houji Town, zhenping county, Nanyang City, and guandu town, zhongmou county, and Hansi Town, Zhengzhou City.
Not only that, Toarey Yang, whose hometown is in hua county, told CBN that in their hometown, the price of radishes and cabbages was reduced to one or two cents (per catty) this year, and it was rarely seen that merchants came to collect them. On the way home, all the spinach and parsley were thrown away, and the locals could not finish eating them. "My cousin also said that he planted 10 acres of Chinese cabbage and 30 acres of green onions, and he never sold them. Now, it is getting colder and colder, and the ground is going to freeze. If you don’t vacate the ground quickly, not only the vegetables will rot in the ground, but also the wheat will not be planted."
Yu Hang said that many vegetables have strong seasonality, such as cabbage. Once they are not harvested in the season, they may not be sold because of "explosion". If the shallots are not harvested in the season, they will start to fall when the wind blows. If the leeks are not harvested on time in the season, the leaves will turn yellow and lose their sales value.
The epidemic has disrupted the rhythm.
In late September this year, when the epidemic began to appear in Ruzhou City, it was the season for local vegetables to go on sale collectively. According to the plan, the best harvest season for these vegetables was around the first day of October (that is, October 25th) of the lunar calendar. However, at this time, some cities in Henan, including Ruzhou, could not be harvested and sold normally due to the second epidemic.
Except about 10% of the vegetable sales areas in Zhifang Town are around Ruzhou, the remaining 90% are mainly sold to Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Jiangsu Province, Hunan Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hebei Province, Beijing, Anhui Province, Luoyang City, Pingdingshan City, Nanyang City, Zhengzhou City and other areas in the province. Nowadays, foreign trucks can’t get in, and local trucks can’t get out, either.
"I planted 34 mu of vegetables myself, and less than one-sixth of them have been sold now. Moreover, 19 mu of them are basically thrown away at a loss because they missed the sales season." In addition to growing his own vegetables, Yu Hang is also a vegetable broker in the local vegetable wholesale market. He recalled that in previous years, the vegetable market where he was located sold more than 20,000 kilograms of vegetables every year, and a 20-ton semi-trailer truck could drive away six cars a day. Now, even if they took the trouble to reduce the price to a loss, they can only sell more than 4,000 kilograms a day.
Similar scenes of unsalable vegetables also occurred in Houji Town, zhenping county, Nanyang City.
Houji Town, located in the southwest of Henan Province, is a famous vegetable planting base in the north because of its fertile land and convenient transportation. It is also the main producing area of green onions and ginger. Now, due to the impact of transportation, 20 million Jin of local seasonal fresh vegetables are facing unsalable sales.
"If no one buys tens of thousands of kilograms of Chinese cabbage, it can only be rotated into the ground, and it can’t be planted without going underground for a season." Xu Zhiwen, a local vegetable farmer, said.
laxation
"I am also a farmer’s child. Looking at the green vegetables and rotting in the ground, I feel my heart is bleeding. It is really difficult for vegetable farmers, which really makes people feel distressed. " While talking, Toarey Yang’s eyes began to be filled with tears. The former media person has now established a new media platform "Yuji" aimed at promoting Henan culture. Now, watching the vegetable farmers selling vegetables at a low price, they can’t even sell them, only destroying them with resentment, while some urban residents can’t go out, and they can’t eat green vegetables and leafy vegetables. Toarey Yang began to sit still.
He first docked Dahe Express and Wanbang Yuncang, two vegetable distribution platforms in Zhengzhou, and asked them to rush to Ruzhou and hua county to collect vegetables. He also collected the contact information of vegetable farmers from all over the country and made them into web pages, calling on fellow villagers from Henan to forward them everywhere. "Give a helping hand to the parents who grow vegetables in their hometown of Henan, add a handful of oil and get through this hurdle as soon as possible."
Ruzhou City, where Yuhang is located, has also begun to take action. The Propaganda Department of Ruzhou Municipal Committee, CPPCC and related units, after many field investigations on unsalable vegetables in Zhifang Town, began to co-ordinate the establishment of volunteer service teams at the city, township and village levels to carry out the "Biweekly Action of Love Dishes" in the city; The local agricultural and rural bureau, the Bureau of Commerce, the Housing and Construction Bureau, the Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Civilization Office and many other functional departments have also begun to help the domestic sales, export and distribution of vegetables. They have set up the most unsalable vegetables to attack the cooperative group, highlighting priorities and coordination, and fully solving the current unsalable problem of vegetable farmers.
To this end, the vegetable distribution cooperative in Zhifang Town, which was set up urgently in the local area, also classified some unsalable vegetables and packaged them into "Paper Vegetable Packages" with different specifications such as 50 yuan (34 kg vegetables), 40 yuan (33 kg vegetables) and 30 yuan (22 kg vegetables), which were directly delivered to the community by professional cooperatives.
Yu Hang said that nowadays, trucks from other places have been able to enter and leave Ruzhou, which has provided a lot of convenience for local vegetable export.
The above-mentioned two vegetable distribution platforms docked by Toarey Yang also dispatched vegetable purchasing convoys respectively, and began to rush to the fields in Ruzhou and hua county, preparing to send more unsalable vegetables to the stoves of Zhengzhou residents.
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