Low-priced apples in many places are unsalable: what can you do to save fruit farmers?

"Economic Information Daily" reporters in Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi and other major apple producing areas learned that due to the spread of the epidemic abroad, China’s apple exports are difficult, the domestic market in the main sales area is relatively saturated, and a large number of fruits are listed in the summer season.

Out of stock is slower than normal, and some fruits begin to rot

When interviewing the main apple producing areas in Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, the reporter saw that, unlike the lively scene of a large number of semi-trailer trucks waiting to deliver apples at this time in previous years, there are basically no fruit transport vehicles in these places this year; some have been stacked for a long time.

Located in the Weibei Dryland, Baishui County, Shaanxi Province, is known as the "Hometown of Apples in China".

Li Shuanzhu, the general manager of Baishui Shengyuan Fruit Co.

"Shengyuan Fruit Industry is a standardized enterprise with export management rights.

In the multiple controlled atmosphere warehouses of Hexing Fruit Industry Co.

"The epidemic has blocked international shipping.

Qixia City, Shandong Province is the main traditional apple producing area in China.

According to a customer who bought Apple in Qixia, they used to sell about 100 boxes a day, but now they can only sell 20 to 30 boxes a day.

Zhou Hongxing, a fruit farmer in Xichendi Village, Beijing Township, Linyi County, Shanxi Province, said that he built 5 air-conditioned cold storage in 2016, with a total storage capacity of more than 7.

As the largest apple production base county in Shanxi, the sales situation in Linyi County is even less optimistic: as of early July, there are still more than one million catties of apples that have not been shipped out of the warehouse, and sales pressure is increasing day by day

Variety structure single market oversupply

This year, China’s main apple producing areas have seen low apple prices and unsalable sales.

The reporter of "Economic Information Daily" found that a large number of homogenized and repeated constructions have led to a "dominant family" situation in China's apple production.

Li Shaoxuan said, “Although a large number of apples are stored in the cold storage every year, the number of apples out of the warehouse this year hit a new high in recent years, mainly

Yang Xixun, chairman of Shaanxi Apple Group Co.

Over time, the slow sales of apples have had an impact on fruit farmers

Mou Rimin, the head of the fruit tree station in Sujiadian Town, said: “This is a vicious circle: if apples cannot be sold, fruit farmers will not be willing to invest more in planting.
Without investment, the quality of apples will become worse and even more unsellable
.
”

"In a word, Chinese apples are still an old problem: there are not many good ones, and many are not good
.
" said Zhao Zhengyang, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University
.

Combining long and short measures to promote the organic connection of production, supply and marketing

Relevant people suggest that effective measures and mechanisms that combine long and short periods should be adopted to solve the problems of large stocks of apples, falling prices, and difficult sales
.

The reporter learned that at present, the local branches of central enterprises, including Sinopec Shaanxi Branch, have introduced practical measures such as "Come on and send Apple" to help reduce inventories
.
Yang Xixun suggested mobilizing and mobilizing the advantages of central enterprises to further promote the "refueling and sending apples" initiative.
At the same time, express logistics companies such as the postal service can also introduce measures such as reducing fees to help farmers solve current difficulties
.

At present, there is overcapacity of apples, and most of our country's orchard planting methods are arborization and sparse planting, and most of the varieties are traditional Fuji
.
"It is necessary to continue to strengthen the promotion of dwarfing and dense planting technology, expand easy-to-manage, high-yield, and good-quality varieties represented by'Yanfu No.
1'and'Baishui No.
1', and increase maturity to adapt to Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in mid-September.
The market demand's "double festival" apple supply strength solves the problem of early picking of single red Fuji apples
.
" Mou Rimin said
.

Li Shaoxuan believes that the small-scale production of households is obviously lagging behind the market demand and does not have the ability to withstand market risks.
It is necessary to change the existing "small farmers, big market" pattern, vigorously improve the degree of organization of apple production, and implement large-scale production.
Industrialized operation, perfecting the Apple circulation chain, and solving the shortcomings of production regardless of the market or market requirements
.

Yang Xixun said that most of China’s main apple producing areas are located in provinces along the “Belt and Road”, and Shaanxi is the largest province in China’s apple production.
You can learn from the successful experience of the Netherlands in building the world’s flower capital and make use of many places such as Baishui County in Shaanxi Province.
With the advantage of being in the core area of ​​the apple industry, the "One Belt One Road" apple industry distribution center will be built to solve the unsmooth and asymmetrical contradictions of marketing and logistics, so as to promote the smooth flow of China's apples and the steady development of high-quality industries
.