The price of this crop rises year after year, with an on-site price of 5 yuan per jin, and farmers earn hundreds of thousands a year
When it comes to tasty fruits in May, right when fruit is in season, peaches are sure to be on the list, and plums are sure to secure a place as well. The flavors of these two fruits are enough to make many ordinary friends' mouths water; they are nutritious and are a common early-summer fruit people eat. In rural areas, there is a kind of peach whose skin and flesh are both yellow, growing as big as a honey peach, yet it is not as sweet and crisp as a honey peach; its taste is instead on the sour side. But its texture and flavor do not affect the favor it enjoys in the hearts of ordinary friends, nor its sales volume; in the market it sells for 15 yuan per jin.
As early as 3000 years ago in ancient times, farmers were already growing yellow peaches, and to this day the yellow peach has always been one of the fruit trees farmers grow. Brother He Lejin, a farmer of the He family from Hucun, has more than ten mu of mountain-land yellow peach orchard on his family's hill, and every year he can earn hundreds of thousands from selling yellow peach fruit, which is exactly why Brother He has always grown yellow peaches at home and been unwilling to go out to work. Brother He had already been growing other fruits long before, and it was only 10 years ago that he began growing yellow peaches; now his yellow peach orchard has officially entered its full production period.
The yellow peach has the characteristics of fast growth, early fruiting, high yield, excellent quality and simple management, and its market prospects are broad. It was precisely this point that Brother He took a fancy to, which is why 10 years ago he switched from other fruits to growing yellow peaches. The yellow peach is highly nutritious; the carotene contained in its flesh is extremely high, 9000 times that of lychee, and its selenium and zinc content is also higher than that of ordinary peaches, making it a health fruit. Apart from being eaten fresh, because it does not keep as well as other fruits, it is generally used to make jam, canned goods, juice and so on, which is also what leaves people with a deep impression of it. Yellow peaches can yield more than 10000 jin per mu, a yield much higher than that of other fruits.
Today the yellow peaches Brother He grows have entered their full production period, which has brought him considerable profit, with returns much higher than before. In these 10 years of growing yellow peaches, apart from 2012 and 2013 when the price was average, the price rose every other year. Just this year, when buyers came to purchase the yellow peaches Brother He grew, the on-site price was 5 yuan per jin, with an output value of 50000 yuan per mu, and over the whole harvest season there could be hundreds of thousands in returns.