After winter, the sugar cane season was followed by an increase in sales of sugar cane in street and market outlets across chengdu. "last year i bought a sugar cane about ten pounds, almost $20, and it felt like this year's price had dropped a lot!" on 8 november, ms. Xu, a citizen, at a fruit shop on taiyan south road in the sheep district, was waiting for the sugar cane she had bought to be cut to the press。
According to journalists, this year's fall in sugar cane prices is due to the increase in the area under cultivation and the availability of sufficient supplies。
The sugar cane on the sidewalk
Prices dropped by about 30 per cent each year
It's a central listing season
After the fourth of july this year, ms. Chengdu bought a sugar cane, “it was 25 bucks and it wasn't so sweet”. Ms. Xu said that “a few more have been bought later, and the price of sugar cane has been reduced from $25 a step by step to the present 9. 9”
In response, the promoter told reporters that the main reason for the sale of sugar cane was from yunnan to chengdu, where prices had fallen by two to three hundred tons at the beginning of the market. “and this year’s prices have fallen by almost 30% compared to the same period in previous years, and this pile of sugar cane has been sold for 15 yuan last year.” wong said to the reporters that huang had nine and a half tons of sugar cane on the trailer。
In addition, a number of fruit shop owners have indicated to journalists that the price and quality of sugar cane are highly correlated and that, even though the market is currently running at a mere fraction of a pound of sugar cane, some of the high quality can still be sold at $34,000 per pound. “the sale price is generally much higher with a thick diameter and high maturity, while the best taste is the time after winter.” the owner of the fruit shop, liang zheng, told the journalists that “in general, sugar cane is now in the middle of a large listing period, with large-scale export markets with sufficient supplies and more affordable prices”
Mr. Lee, a sugar cane wholesaler at the sichuan rains international agricultural trading centre, told journalists that he was currently delivering about 10 tons a day, that the area under sugar cane cultivation had expanded this year and that the increase in production was one of the reasons for the current decline in sugar cane prices. “this year guangxi, where sugar cane is produced, has expanded its area of cultivation, and it is normal to buy about $540 a ton of it, and sell more than a pound to chengdu at the retail end.”
Total national production is about 100 million tons
Chengdu consumers prefer green sugar cane
Journalists have learned that a significant proportion of sugar cane currently sold in the chengdu market comes from outside the country, such as guangdong, guangxi and yunnan
According to journalists, sugar cane farmers in the dual-flow zone have expanded their area of sugar cane cultivation to 10 acres and produce about 6 tons of acre this year, owing to better sugar cane practices last year. “our sugar cane is sold mainly to older customers and to some of the famous pickers, who are now about 14 sugar cane sweets, with a better taste, and some first-time tasters who then buy a bundle (10).”
When it comes to this year’s prices, lin says that the price of sugar cane in his base has fallen as a result of the many low-priced sugar cane in the market. “the 18-dollar sugar cane cut in the garden that we introduced just came down to 16 a week.”
It is known that chengdu is not the country's main sugar cane producer, and the national statistics institute (ine) data show that the total area under sugar cane cultivation in the country has been increasing over the past three years, with about 100 million tons of sugar cane produced annually. The main concentration of sugar cane cultivation in chengdu is concentrated in areas such as shinzin district, dual-flowed areas, most of which are farmed by families with individual growers ranging from a few acres to dozens of acres, mainly of purple and yellow leather, with purple sugar cane matured slightly later than green sugar cane. “relatively, sugar cane cane is more sweet, sweeter, softer, and more popular with local consumers!” said lu zhou, a sugar cane grower in the dual-stream。
