Nectarine harvest season: why do farmers throw them on the ground as fertilizer?

In this harvest season, for many farmers engaged in cultivation, how much they earn this year depends on these few months. Generally, if nothing unexpected happens, the returns are not bad. But in Wuyazi Village, farmer Gu Yuechu, who grows nectarines at home, faced exactly this problem. Many people who see the pictures would think Brother Gu is picking nectarines in the orchard? In fact, he is not picking nectarines but picking them up from the ground, and the nectarines he picks up are thrown onto the ground to be used as fertilizer.

Looking at this broken branch, could it have been broken by the densely packed, bright red nectarines growing on it? Brother Gu said helplessly that this season is when typhoons come relatively frequently, and the wind brought rain, causing most of the branches of the nectarine trees he planted up the hill to break, and most of the already ripe nectarines were also blown to the ground. Of the nearly 200 trees planted, nearly 30 had broken branches, which has a huge impact on next year's yield.

Nearly 500 jin of nectarines were blown off the 200 trees. Every one of these nectarines that fell to the ground was bruised, and after being soaked by rainwater, their taste turned sour. They could not be sold at all, so farmer Brother Gu could only dump them on the ground as fertilizer.

The retail price of nectarines on the market is generally 8 yuan per jin, and the wholesale price is about 6 yuan per jin. Farmer Brother Gu's loss from just these 500 jin of nectarines blown to the ground was nearly 3,000 yuan. Of course, he bought insurance for these losses, and they can all be reimbursed, but the most important thing is that so many nectarine trees were crushed and broken, and next year's yield will still be greatly reduced. This is the main loss.