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Since 2020, betel nut has been deleted from the "food" sequence, but it still has no effect on its sales. Young people are fascinated by it. Depending on the brand and quality, its price ranges from 10 yuan, 30 yuan, 50 yuan and 100 yuan. Some consumers spend four or five thousand yuan a year just chewing betel nut.

However, since Yiwu banned the sale of betel nut, it has aroused strong repercussions and disputes in the market. Many regulatory authorities demanded that betel nuts be removed from the shelves, and the price of fresh betel nuts began to plummet. Some middlemen even lost10 million yuan. What happened? Where should betel nut industry go?

How harmful is betel nut?

If Yiwu did not ban the sale of betel nuts, I am afraid many people do not know how harmful betel nuts are to human health. In fact, as early as 2003, international organizations listed betel nut as a carcinogen, at the same level as asbestos and formaldehyde.

For example, betel nut is very popular in India. In the international city of Mumbai alone, 33% people have eaten betel nut, but the incidence of oral cancer in this country ranks first in the world.

As the pillar of betel nut industry in Hunan, the incidence of oral cancer is obviously higher because people chew betel nut for a long time. A report shows that 44 of 45 patients with oral cancer in a hospital have long been dependent on betel nut.

From 2005 to 20 16, the incidence of oral cancer caused by betel nut continued to rise, and 16 was 7 times that of 2005.

Long-term consumption of betel nut will damage people's oral mucosa, and then oral ulcer, gingival swelling, oral leukoplakia and so on will appear. And then induce oral cancer, the face will be deformed.

Some time ago, a 36-year-old singer died of oral cancer caused by eat areca. Before his death, he advised everyone to stay away from betel nut, but this was not generally taken seriously.

However, because betel nut is addictive, exciting and refreshing to eat, many people will habitually eat areca, and many people think that betel nut will not affect their health.

In order to promote betel nut, some merchants even labeled it "keep healthy". They processed betel nut together with Lycium barbarum and Dendrobium nobile, thus making consumers think that eat areca can also keep healthy.

Since betel nut was excluded from food in 2020, its identity has also become extremely embarrassing. However, some merchants only regard betel nut as a product with high medicinal value. Obviously, it is unrealistic to apply for listing it as a "medicine and food homologous" product. After all, betel nut is already a medicine in Turkey, Australia and other countries.

Fresh fruit prices plummeted 12 yuan.

Nowadays, the chain reaction caused by the storm of betel nut removal is also continuing. After Yiwu, many other cities in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Sichuan provinces began to sell betel nuts, and they were not allowed to sell betel nuts.

Although it can be sold in other cities, many operators complain that the sales of betel nut have dropped sharply, and many people are afraid to go to eat areca again.

There are also some agents who say that the sale of betel nuts may be banned at any time, and they dare not buy more betel nuts in large quantities for fear that betel nuts will fall into their hands.

Some stores no longer replenish their products frequently, and then notify the agents to replenish them after the betel nut products are sold out.

Because betel nut is no longer a food, it is also required to be placed in the non-food area when selling, which makes some merchants complain about the increase in display costs.

However, those growers and middlemen should be the hardest hit. We must know that the scale of China's betel nut industry is as high as 70 billion yuan, of which the output value of Hainan betel nut is 20 billion yuan.

Since the betel nut storm, the wholesale price of fresh fruit has dropped from the previous 30 yuan to 18 yuan, which has caused many fruit farmers to complain.

You should know that the price of 12 yuan fluctuates greatly, the wholesale price has fallen to 18 yuan, and the price of origin has already fallen below 10 yuan.

Some fruit farmers complain that the requirements for receiving goods from middlemen are stricter now. Fruits that are too big and old are basically not collected, unlike in the past, which are collected according to size.

However, middlemen also have difficulties. Every year, betel nut fresh fruit will be put into the cold storage and sold one by one.

However, before the betel nut storm, fresh fruit was purchased at the land price of 22 yuan per catty, which cost 50 million yuan and was already baked, but the wholesale price has now dropped to 18 yuan, which means that as long as it is sold, it will lose money.

In desperation, the middleman had to put the goods in the cold storage to wait and see the follow-up market, but he was not optimistic about the future market, saying that this wave would lose at least100000 yuan.

Where is betel nut going?

At present, the planting area of Areca catechu in Hainan Province is 654.38+024.7 thousand hectares, and the harvesting area is 8.85 hectares. Last year, the total output exceeded 280,000 tons.

Betel nut is expensive, but the planting cost is high. A tree usually takes six years to bear fruit. One acre of land can plant 120 trees, and its output is only 1500 kg.

Over the years, with the high price of betel nut, the low cost of its packaging has also increased, and the total cost is about 6-8 yuan, including fertilization and labor costs.

In this way, after the price is reduced, farmers work hard for one year and only earn about 3000-4000 yuan per mu of land.

Lao Guo, a grower in Qiongzhong, said that before he planted fruit trees, the benefits were not very good. Because he planted betel nut in 17, the price last year was considerable, and the price of the place of origin was 15 yuan a catty. The annual income of planting betel nut exceeds 10 yuan, but now the price of betel nut has fallen below 10 yuan, and the cost is still high. You can't earn a few in a busy year.

Indeed, behind the betel nut ban, the income of farmers will drop sharply.

But then, the betel nut industry should also speed up the transformation, otherwise, I am afraid there will be a terrible situation of 20 13. After all, the land price of betel nut fell to 1 yuan, and farmers and middlemen lost all their money.