China News Agency, Maoming, April 23 (Liang Shengliang Jingjing) The lychee production in Maoming, Guangdong Province, "China's Li Township", has declined slightly this year, and the lychee maturation period has also been slightly delayed.
This is the news the reporter obtained from the city's Agricultural and Rural Affairs Center on the 23rd.
Liu Fuqiao, a senior agronomist at the Fruit Industry Development Center in Maoming City, said that this year's lychee production has been reduced in addition to the prolonged low-temperature weather during the Spring Festival. The new crown pneumonia epidemic has led to a decrease in the number of foreign beekeepers by more than half, which has affected lychee pollination and fruit set. .
In addition, after the lychee was harvested last year, Maoming promoted the improvement of more than 50,000 mu of lychee varieties on a large scale. These improved varieties will not be put into normal production until two years later.
According to Liu Fuqiao, online sales of lychees in Maoming have developed rapidly in recent years. In 2021, the number of lychee e-commerce orders will exceed 15 million, the sales volume will be nearly 80,000 tons, and the sales will exceed 1.8 billion yuan.
E-commerce sales have become an important way to increase the sales price of Maoming lychees and expand the sales areas of lychees.
Therefore, even in the context of the reduction in lychee production this year, the income of fruit farmers will not decrease.
Gaozhou is the main lychee producing area in Maoming.
He Jianhe, the head of the Gaozhou Fruit and Vegetable Professional Cooperative, said that the cooperative's lychee production has dropped by nearly 20% this year, with an estimated output of 1,650 tons.
Due to the cooperative development of fruit farmers in the cooperative, with multiple teams such as large planters, transportation, sales, and online sales, they quickly got rid of the previous situation of relying solely on foreign merchants for door-to-door purchases, and mastered pricing power and market initiative.
Before the listing of lychees this year, the online order rate has reached 40%, and the price has been rising steadily.
It is understood that the lychee planting area in Maoming is about 1.35 million mu. It is the largest lychee production base in the world, accounting for one-fifth of the country's planting area. Etc., a small number of them are listed in early April every year, and the harvesting peak period begins in early June, with a total annual output of more than 500,000 tons.
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