From 200 Pounds To 5 Yuan A Box Of Blueberries, Blueberry Prices Big Jump!

Blueberries, the world's second largest berry, known as the 'Queen of Fruits' reputation.
Recently, to the peak of the blueberry market, however, had sold hundreds of yuan a catty of blueberries, the price has ushered in a 'dive', has appeared in many parts of the country, 'ten yuan three boxes' of blueberries. Recently, the reporter visited Sichuan, Yunnan blueberry origin survey found that the top of the net red aura of 'luxury fruit', the price of the myth failed to continue, is a year-on-year downward trend, the current price of most of the 10 to 20 yuan a catty. However, the price of blueberries also appeared polarisation, the lowest only a few yuan a catty, quality and variety of good can still sell dozens of yuan a catty.
Speaking of Liaoning, Dandong, Zhuanghe, Benxi, Fushun and other places are planted, production jumped to the top three in the country, is also now on the market.

'Previously sold by the gram, now sold by the catty.'
Top 'imported' 'high-end' and other labels appear in the Chinese fruit market in the blueberry, with the further expansion of the scale of domestic planting, the price quickly dive.
Sichuan is in addition to Yunnan, the second largest blueberry producing areas, the province's planting area of 120,000 acres, planting area and production in the country ranked fourth and second, respectively. May to June each year, Sichuan blueberries on the market in large quantities. Reporter survey found that, under the influence of various factors, this year, blueberry prices came to a new record low. 4 June, in Xichang City, Chang'an farmers wholesale market, fresh blueberries can be seen everywhere. Reporters visited more than ten fruit shops found that the price of blueberries is generally 10 to 20 yuan a catty, the lowest only 10 yuan a catty, there are some blueberries sold to 30 to 40 yuan a catty. Photo credit: Red Star News in front of a fruit stall, the public Ms Chen haggled, and even at a price of 8 yuan a catty to buy 2 pounds of blueberries. She told the reporter that she had bought 100 yuan per catty of blueberries when they first hit the market at the beginning of the year. 'I didn't expect it to be so cheap after only two or three months.' Not only customers feel cheap, growers also lamented that 'this year's blueberry prices are not optimistic'. Xichang blueberry growers Chen Liying introduction, a few years ago, she planted 60 acres of blueberries, the highest had sold to 200 to 300 yuan a catty, but this year the highest price of only 80 to 90 yuan a catty, the lowest can only sell 8 to 9 yuan a catty, 'the previous on the grams of sales, and now according to the catty sales, the price has fallen to the original one of a few or even one of the dozen. "

Price diving behind the three main reasons 'now planting blueberries too many people.' A number of blueberry growers said that the current blueberry prices 'diving', and blueberry large area planting has a lot to do. In Sichuan, blueberry planting area from the Chengdu Plain to the surrounding counties radiation extension. Dayi County is one of the main producing counties, the county planting area of more than 20,000 acres. late May, a few days of high temperature weather, so that Dayi County, Chengdu City, Anren Town, Jingu domain Australia Manor more than 100 acres of blueberries from the green quickly turned into a sign of ripening of the dark blue. Here, the earliest batch of blueberries has been planted for more than 10 years. Zhou Yantong, the person in charge of the manor, told reporters that for more than a decade, the highest wholesale price of blueberries had reached 30 yuan a catty, 'for several years in a row the price has been declining, and this year the wholesale price is only a dozen yuan.' In Zhou Yantong's view, the reason for the decline is mainly related to the expanding scale of blueberry planting. She observed that over the past few years, in addition to Dayi County, the surrounding districts and counties of the blueberry planting base more and more. Statistics confirm Zhou Yantong's observation. in 2018, the blueberry planting area in Sichuan was around 60,000 mu, concentrated in the counties around Chengdu Plain. Today, the province's blueberry planting area has reached 120,000 mu. It is not just Sichuan. Data statistics, as of the end of 2023, the national planting of blueberries in the provinces expanded from the initial 10 to 27, and the cultivated area rapidly grew to more than 1.1 million mu, with an annual output of 348,900 tonnes.