The organic garlic in Jinxiang(1)
22/11/2011Chinese garlic town–jinxiang has won the grant of the only organic garlic growing base. The first batch of organic garlic went on the market on 16th, and 1500 tons of organic garlic will get into Wal-Mart, Ginza, and other supermarkets at the price of 10 Yuan/jin.
“There are many garlic growing plants nationwide. Low quality will gradually be phased out by the industry.” Li Jingfeng, president of Jinxiang Organic Garlic Sales Ltd said when he was interviewed by Economic Herald reporter that the garlic price has experienced drastic volatility in recent years, which disrupted the normal market order. It is a promotion for garlic in jinxiang upgraded to organic garlic, and it will be conductive to the stability of the market and the price, and bring garlic farmers more stable revenue.
According to Li Qingxia, the deputy magistrate in jinxiang County, 3200 acres of organic garlic were grown in this country this year.To avoid capital speculation and to ensure that consumers can buy authentic organic garlic, Huaguang company, Hongcang Company, Hongtai Company, Successful Vegetables and Fruits, Hengyuan Company and Shandong Runfeng Seeds Company have jointly established Jinxiang organic garlic sales Ltd., which specializes in selling organic garlic, and realizes the overall process monitoring and totally closed operation from land to supermarkets.
The profits are one time higher.
As expected, the garlic price in Jinxiang has dropped drastically after the prosperity last year. Many garlic farmers sold garlic at the price of 0.6 Yuan/jin, which made little money.
But organic garlic planting is an exception. Ma Zongkui, a grower of organic garlic in Bao Lou Village, worked an account for the reporter. This year when he sold his organic garlic at the price 0.5 Yuan higher than the market price, he got reward from the government, which was 1000 Yuan for each acre. And the company also assigned him 30% of the profits in the operation. So, the profits made by growing organic garlic were one time higher than ordinary garlic.
However, just like the planting of other organic vegetables, organic garlic planting refuses chemical fertilizer, pesticides and additives in the process of planting, production, management and processing. Also, it doesn’t involve genetic engineering technology, antibiotics and ionizing radiation technology.” This allows the costs of organic garlic nearly 4 times higher than the ordinary garlic.” Li Jingfeng said with higher labor costs, manual weeding will cost 20 Yuan/day/person without the use of herbicides. At the same time, since no pesticide was used in preventing garlic diseases, organic garlic yields were 25% less than ordinary garlic. In this way, the cost of each jin of organic fresh garlic has reached 2 Yuan, and the cost of organic dry garlic is more than 5 Yuan. After considering various factors, the organic garlic price in jinxiang is 5 or even 10 times higher than ordinary garlic, which is 10 Yuan/jin.
The organic garlic in Jinxiang (2)
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