Peanut cold for two consecutive years, the price of seed reduction increased by three percent from last year

Compared with the price drop of garlic this year, the price of peanuts has increased significantly, and the price of shelled peanuts has increased by 3 to 60% over last year. The reporter learned that the cultivation scale of peanuts in Pingdu City, an important agricultural area, has been reduced year after year. In just three years, the planting area of ​​the city's pillar crop peanuts has dropped from 50.2 million mu in the previous year to 430,000 mu this year.

Situation: The reduction in the planting area in successive years has always been China's agricultural focus, and peanuts are also one of the pillar crops in the city. The reporter recently learned that due to the low economic returns and the fact that the harvest depends on artificial factors, the enthusiasm of farmers for peanuts is reduced. In the past three years, the peanut planting area in the city has decreased year after year. “In recent years, the peanut planting scale in Pingdu City has been on a downward trend. In 2009, it was 502,000 mu, and it was reduced to 460,000 mu last year. This year it has reduced 30,000 mu and planted an area of ​​430,000 mu.” Zhang Suqin, deputy chief of Agricultural Technology Station of Dudu City, told reporters.

It is understood that Pingdu has a history of planting peanuts in large areas for more than 20 years. Two years ago, the planting area of ​​peanuts in the city has been more than 500,000 mu.

“Our town planted 20,000 mu of peanuts last year. This year, the planting area has been reduced by 4-5 mu compared to last year.” Yesterday afternoon, the reporter went to Gaolan Town, Pingdu City, and the town’s agricultural service center Chi Guimei, a farm technician from the town, told reporters. "Many farmers who grow peanuts have planted peanuts to plant crops such as corn and wheat."

Policy: There is no purchase protection price Zhang Suqin said that the main reason why farmers give up peanuts and switch to other crops is mainly due to the low economic returns of peanuts. "Planting peanuts is not like grain. One mu of peanuts is only given as a subsidy of 10 yuan. There are no price protection measures when it is sold. If grain crops such as corn and wheat are to be harvested, then according to relevant policies, there will be about 100 yuan per mu. The subsidy, and the government has to protect the purchase price, the purchaser can not purchase food at a price lower than the protection purchase price standards.” Zhang Suqin said that from the standpoint of subsidizing and protecting the purchase price, there is a big gap between peanuts and grain. .

“In addition, from the crop's own growth habits, peanuts are greatly affected by natural conditions such as soil and weather. Especially during harvesting, if it is too late to catch the rain, it will cause rotten fruit.” Zhang Suqin said that last September, A continuous rainfall during the harvest of peanuts allowed a lot of peanuts to rot in the ground. “Farmers can only watch their own losses and can only worry.”

Harvesting: It takes more time for labor to grow and harvest than it does for food crops such as corn and wheat. "For the past two years, the rushes in the peanut fields have grown very strongly. This kind of grass eats peanuts and affects the quality of peanuts, which will also lead to fruit drop." Chi Guimei said that it is more troublesome for peanut farmers to take care of them. And when it comes to wheat and corn, it doesn't need to be too piped. It's much simpler than peanuts. "Peanuts are also very troublesome to harvest. It is not like wheat can be harvested with a harvester. Although there are fruit pickers, the land is dry or wet, and fruit pickers cannot be used, so picking up peanuts is mostly manual."

Even if it is so tired, the income from one acre of peanuts is not good. "Peanuts are generally produced in six or seven hundred kilograms. When peanuts were harvested last year, they were less than three pounds per kilogram." Chi Guimei said, "That's all it takes. After a year of hard work, an acre of peanuts was only earning about 2,000 yuan. The cost of hiring workers and fertilizing insects can also earn more than 1,000 yuan.

Management: Light fight drugs on five or six times at 5:30 pm yesterday, in the Peanut Field, not far from the Pinglan Township government, Ms. Wang, a villager in Xidujia Village, is giving peanuts pesticides. She told reporters that she was killing the peanuts with bactericidal drugs so that peanuts could produce more results. “This year my family planted less than 5 mu of peanuts, which is less than last year. Part of the land was replanted with corn. Peanuts are too much trouble. The input cost of peanuts is higher than that of corn. From the sowing to harvest, we must spray 5 or 6 pesticides. Weak fertilizers have to be topdressed, and weeding must be done." "If you plant ten mu of peanuts, the labor cost for collecting peanuts will be 1,000 yuan." The planting troubles cause the peanut market to be unstable. "Last year, my family's peanuts sold earlier than others, and even a pound sold less than a dollar. Peanuts are like this, too tired, labor, labor, the harvest is not necessarily good."

Quote: The price of peanuts rose by two or three yuan per kilogram. Compared with last year, the price of peanuts continued to rise this year. Chi Guimei said that in the same period last year, only a pound of shelled peanuts was sold for 5-6 yuan a pound, this year it was 8 yuan a pound, an increase of 3 percent or more. “The new peanuts will mature in September. The peanut stocks in the past few months were relatively small. The stocks that were stored last year were sold out. It was the old peanuts sold out and the new peanuts that had not yet come down. So peanut prices are also higher."

As for the continued rise in peanut prices this year, Zhang Suqin said that in addition to possible artificial speculation, the most important issue is the supply and demand relationship. Last year, the scale of peanut cultivation decreased, and due to the impact of the weather, peanuts were cut sharply and the market supply was limited. In addition, the rigid demand of the market, including the purchase demand of large-scale peanut oil companies, has not been reduced at all. Therefore, the price increase is inevitable.

Related news Peanut oil prices rose in the second quarter of the report issued by the Sanqing City Grain Bureau the day before yesterday and said that due to factors such as rising prices of domestic raw materials, the average import price of peanuts in the second quarter was 8,507 yuan per ton, which was 3.3% higher than that in the first quarter. In the same period of last year, it rose by 21.6%; in the second quarter, the average factory price of peanut oil was 17,983 yuan per ton, which was 3% higher than the first quarter and 27.7% higher than the same period of last year.

The report analyzes that as peanut prices have been rising all the way, the increase in logistics costs, labor costs, and management costs, together with the time limit for the edible oil price limit policy, have caused many peanut oil producers to incur costs. "Report" analysis, in the coming period, whether peanut oil prices continue to rise, is still an unknown number, the Municipal Food Bureau will pay close attention.