Shandong garlic scape prices drop and sales are difficult; these ideas can help you open up sales channels
This year can be described as an unlucky year for garlic farmers. Not only are the prices of newly listed fresh garlic in the south low, but garlic scape prices in the north are also very low. For example, in my hometown in the Kaifeng area of Henan, garlic scape prices were five mao per jin a few days ago, and in the past two days garlic scape prices have improved somewhat, but only to about 8 mao per jin. So the places where garlic scape prices have fallen this year are not only Shandong; it should be said to be a nationwide common phenomenon. After all, with logistics and transportation so developed today, the supply situation of agricultural products across the country is also about the same. How should the current situation of unsalable garlic scapes be solved?Science Promoting Agriculture offers the following suggestions, hoping they will be helpful to you.
Rural e-commerce
I have introduced the advantages of rural e-commerce before, so I will not introduce them again here. Rural e-commerce can be said to be a direction for future development. Rural areas are rich in products and have strong regional characteristics, which can be very helpful in helping farmers sell local fresh agricultural products to cities. For garlic scapes, the fresh-keeping period is relatively long; generally three to five days is still fine. With today's highly developed cold-chain system, a three-to-five-day fresh-keeping period still keeps them much like fresh ones, and fast logistics can basically deliver them to consumers' hands in two days. It can be said that for the currently unsalable garlic scapes, the rural e-commerce path is very suitable. Nowadays, e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, JD.com, and Suning are also very developed; in such a situation, rural areas really should not be left out.
It is reported that not long ago there was a classic case of JD Fresh helping Yunnan Lijiang sell local unsalable garlic. It not only helped local farmers solve the unsalable problem, but also brought unexpected economic benefits to local farmers. At the same time, e-commerce also benefited, making it a win-win situation.
Deep processing of garlic scapes
Many farmers want to ask, can garlic scapes also be deeply processed? That's right. As long as you pay attention, business opportunities are everywhere. Didn't Lao Gan Ma also stand out from the market? So do not think garlic scapes cannot do it. As long as they have distinctive features, they all have a very good market. For garlic scapes, for example, they can be processed into pickled wine-fermented garlic scapes. When I was in my rural hometown, my mother made them every year. It is a dish most people in rural areas know how to make, while most people in cities have never even eaten it. Why not make good use of this market space and take the opportunity to enter this market?
Contract farming
The unsalable problem of agricultural products is also an old topic. It is discussed every year, and such topics can be said to accompany us all year round. Now garlic scapes are unsalable, next garlic will be unsalable, then in summer peppers, cucumbers, and tomatoes may be unsalable, and in autumn and winter radishes and cabbage may be unsalable, and so on. Why can these unsalable problems not be eliminated at the root? A major reason is that farmers plant with great blindness. Uncertainty about the future market and the tendency to follow the crowd make the market changeable. Therefore, turning this uncertainty into certainty can help avoid such problems as much as possible. What can currently solve this difficult problem is the enterprise + farmer contract operation model. Only in this way can the current unsalable problem in agricultural products be thoroughly solved, and farmers' rights and interests can also be protected to the greatest extent.
The above directions are a few views shared with you by Science Promoting Agriculture. I hope they are helpful to you, and I also hope that this year all of you can sell your agricultural products smoothly.