Why is fruit so expensive this year?

Recently, there is a hot topic on the internet, that is, the price of fruit is too expensive this year, and eating is too expensive. Compared with the same period last year, the price of many fruits has more than doubled, which consumers can't afford; However, many farmers say they don't make money either. So, where did all this money go? What happened in the middle? Tell everyone about it.

Many people love fruit, but this year's fruit is hard to love. Many people on the Internet are saying that the price of fruits around them is getting more and more expensive. For example, litchi, the newly listed white sugar poppy litchi, sells for 59.9 yuan a catty, while the concubine smile litchi that everyone used to eat is 39.9 yuan a catty, almost 2 yuan.

There is also a catty of durian 35 yuan, a catty of pineapple 1 1 yuan, a catty of cherry 38 yuan, a catty of loquat 12 yuan, and even a catty of banana. There are no fruits below 5 yuan in the supermarket now. Oh, by the way, a catty of tomatoes in 3.9 yuan is barely a fruit. It stands to reason that the retail price is so expensive that fruit farmers should make a lot of money, but many fruit farmers on the Internet say that they have not made any money at all. Why?

① the weather. From late autumn and early winter last year to this spring. Extreme weather has always existed. For example, there was rainy weather in Jiangnan for more than a month. The most direct impact is that the fruit setting rate of various fruits has dropped sharply. For example, the fruit setting rate of litchi is only 1-20% last year. In addition, the price of various lychees remains high at present.

② Cost increases. With the improvement of quality, the cost is also increasing. Take pears as an example. Now pears are required to be bagged. The cost of a bag is 5 cents, the labor cost of a bag is about 5 cents, and it is also 5 cents to remove a bag after harvesting. Finally, I have to put 50 cents on the Internet. Counting a pear will increase the cost of 0.2 yuan, which is not a time investment. There are many similar examples.

③ Intermediate links. Fruit does not mean going directly from fruit farmers to diners, and middlemen have to go through layers of price increases. There used to be fruit stalls in many places, but now they are managed in a unified way, and these stalls along the street have disappeared. If you want to buy fruit, you must go to a supermarket or a fruit shop. The cost of rent and labor should also be shared equally in the cost of fruit. For example, the leek in my vegetable market costs 80 cents a catty, and the supermarket 7 kilometers away sells 2.7 yuan.

Another reason is that most young people are working in cities now, and fewer and fewer people are engaged in growers. Hard work, not making much money, leading to fewer and fewer employees, reduced output, dependence on imports, and higher fruit prices, which is also one of the reasons. In addition, at this time of the year, when the fruit is "green and yellow", the price of the fruit will be expensive, and in a month or so, the price will fall on a large scale.

Fruit is too expensive to eat this year, but farmers say they can't make money. Why? The above is a detailed introduction. The main reasons are extreme weather and reduced production. There is also a price increase in the middle, fruit farmers can't make money, and the things we buy are also expensive. But don't worry, the price will be cheaper after a while.