Can fruit corn earn ten thousand yuan per mu? Is it a rumor or a fact?

Fruit corn, also known as sweet corn, has won the favor of many consumers with its sweet taste. In recent years, more and more farmers have been growing fruit corn, and some people say that growing fruit corn can earn ten thousand yuan per mu. Is this a rumor or a fact?

Compared with ordinary corn, fruit corn does indeed have much higher growing returns. But earning ten thousand yuan per mu is indeed a bit exaggerated. Some farmers may be doing the math: a fresh fruit corn cob on the market can sell for 3 to 5 yuan, and calculating at 3000 to 4000 plants per mu, with two seasons a year in the southern region, by any calculation the output value exceeds ten thousand yuan. In fact, when ordinary farmers grow fruit corn, it is impossible to sell it for 3 to 5 yuan per cob. The 3 to 5 yuan is the terminal price, that is, the price at which it is sold in supermarkets. Secondly, large-scale planting cannot all be sold fresh; most fruit corn cannot be sold directly to ordinary people after harvest, and the selling price is not as high as everyone imagines.

If you have channels through which you can supply your own fruit corn directly to the terminal market, and can sell it all within a short time, then you can earn more money than ordinary growers. But doing all this is somewhat difficult. Although fruit corn cannot earn ten thousand yuan per mu, its returns are relatively higher than ordinary corn. Growing fruit corn well can increase your income.

But growing fruit corn is more difficult than growing ordinary corn. Compared with ordinary corn, fruit corn has a lower emergence rate. The reason fruit corn is sweet is that the seeds have a high sugar content and a low starch content, and a low starch content makes seed germination difficult and leads to a low emergence rate. In addition, many farmer friends still follow the growing methods for ordinary corn when planting fruit corn, without considering environmental factors such as temperature, moisture and soil conditions, which makes the emergence rate of fruit corn, already low due to its own seed traits, even lower.

Compared with ordinary corn, some fruit corn also has poorer stress resistance and is more susceptible to pests and diseases. Combined with extensive management practices, continuous cropping year after year and other human factors, fruit corn is plagued by pests and diseases, resulting in lower yields and declining quality.

Finally, fruit corn also has a harvesting cost problem. Because fresh fruit corn cobs contain a relatively large amount of liquid, mechanical harvesting easily damages them and reduces quality. Most can only rely on manual harvesting. Moreover, the harvest period is relatively short, and if the harvest time is wrong, quality will decline. If grown on a large scale, the cost may be too high.

These problems are currently beyond farmers' ability to solve. If you want to improve the emergence rate and resistance of fruit corn, you need high-quality varieties; if you want to solve the harvesting problem, you need more specialized machinery. So for fruit corn, farmers can only sow with care.

Although fruit corn has high returns, its cultivation and management require more precision, and the input costs will rise accordingly, so it should be grown according to actual conditions.