2019 Millet Wholesale Price per Jin and Planting Time and Techniques
Modern people have better living conditions and pay more and more attention to health preservation. Besides eating rice, they occasionally cook some millet porridge to nourish the stomach and intestines. So how much is the millet wholesale price per jin in 2019? When to plant? What are the planting techniques?
1. Basic introduction to millet
1. Millet's producing areas
Millet is an annual herbaceous plant with thick fibrous roots. Its original name is foxtail millet, also called liang, foxtail grass, yellow millet, and millet grain. It originated in the Yellow River Basin of northern China, Inner Mongolia, and the Northeast region, mainly concentrated in the Chifeng and Tongliao areas. Millet was a major food crop in ancient China and is suitable for growing in arid areas lacking irrigation.
2. Millet's value
Millet is rich in protein, fat, vitamins, and other nutrients. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency and damage, harmonizing the middle and benefiting the kidneys, clearing heat, and detoxifying. Regular consumption of millet can reduce wrinkles, age spots, pigmentation, and so on; when used as medicine, millet also has the effects of clearing heat, quenching thirst, nourishing yin, and tonifying the spleen and kidneys; in addition, millet's stems and leaves can also serve as excellent feed for livestock, and the husk can also serve as good feed for pigs and chickens.
2. How much is the millet wholesale price per jin in 2019?
Millet prices generally fluctuate and vary due to factors such as producing area, yield, and quality. Below, the editor of Tuliu.com has compiled some millet prices for everyone's reference.
1. According to the Baishazhou Agricultural and Sideline Products Market in Wuhan, Hubei, the recent local millet price is 2.4 yuan/jin;
2. The millet price at Shandong Kuangshan Agricultural Products Comprehensive Trading Market is 6 yuan/jin, and the price at the Jinshi Hehuakeng Market in Tangshan City is 2.41 yuan/jin;
3. The wholesale price of 5kg packaged natural organic millet from Liaoning is 65 yuan/bag;
4. The price of 650-gram bagged millet in Ganzhou District, Zhangye, Gansu is: 5 yuan for a purchase volume of 1 item, 4.8 yuan/item for purchases of 3 items or more, and 4.6 yuan/item for purchases of 5 items or more.
3. Millet planting time and techniques
To achieve good returns from millet cultivation, besides favorable market conditions, yield and quality are also particularly important, so the millet planting time and techniques are introduced below:
1. Millet planting time
Millet cultivation uses the sowing method, generally carried out from April to May each year. Sowing millet at this time gives a high germination rate. When selecting millet seeds, choose those of superior quality and full grains, so that the millet grown will be good.
2. Millet planting techniques
(1) Millet has abundant variety resources, so everyone can choose early-maturing, mid-maturing, and late-maturing varieties according to local conditions. After selecting the seeds, the sowing land should be prepared and fertilized, with timely deep plowing and sufficient basal fertilizer based mainly on phosphate fertilizer plus farmyard manure.
(2) Treatment should be carried out before sowing: choose sunny days to sun the seeds in time, and mix the seeds with new high-fat film (can be mixed with seed coating agents), which can repel underground pests and diseases, isolate virus infection, not affect the germination and swelling function, strengthen respiration intensity, and improve the seed germination rate and emergence rate.
(3) After millet emerges, check the seedlings and replant missing ones. Topdressing should be carried out 15-20 days before millet heading during the booting stage to increase yield; in addition, in fields with good water and fertilizer conditions and vigorous seedling growth, seedling suppression should be carried out in time. The main methods of seedling suppression are timely control of fertilizer and water at the 2-3 leaf stage, deep intertillage, and so on.
(4) During millet growth, be sure to carry out intertillage, weeding, and loosening of the soil, and at the same time carry out high hilling to promote root development and prevent lodging.
(5) During millet growth, diseases and pests such as smut and red spiders are prone to occur, so prevention and control measures should be taken in advance, spraying corresponding agents to control the occurrence of the disease.
The above is what the editor of Tuliu.com wants to introduce to everyone regarding millet's price, planting time, and techniques. The majority of growers must master the time and techniques when planting, and at the same time pay attention to changes in market conditions to minimize risks.