Although growing sugar mandarins is very profitable, many farmers have been driven into debt and bankruptcy by huanglongbing. They have developed a fear of sugar mandarins, wanting to grow them for profit but afraid of losing money again. Having heard that growing other fruit trees can also be profitable, the farmers began to have ideas.

Others make money growing sugar mandarins, but he just cannot

Uncle's family originally lived in the city, but later they saw that every farmer in the village was making money growing sugar mandarins. He got very interested, so he returned to the countryside and planted several mu of his rural fields with sugar mandarins.

But with insufficient growing experience, in the first two years his family's sugar mandarins caught huanglongbing, and more than half were diseased, so they could only be cut down and replanted. By the third year when the fruit set, he found that many sugar mandarins looked sickly and had contracted huanglongbing.

In the end, the several mu of sugar mandarins sold for less than 10,000 yuan, and after cutting down the diseased trees he could only replant new saplings.

Over the next two years, huanglongbing in his family's sugar mandarins never stopped and was extremely severe, and every year many fruit trees had to be cut down. After several years of growing, he had not made money and had even lost money.

Losing money growing sugar mandarins, he wants to switch to growing gonggan mandarins

Seeing that growing sugar mandarins simply would not make money no matter what, he also doubted whether he should keep growing sugar mandarins at all, or just go back to the city and stop caring about rural affairs.

But watching the villagers earn big money, he could never bear to give it up. Since growing sugar mandarins easily leads to huanglongbing, then he should switch to another kind of fruit tree.

He heard that growing gonggan mandarins not only tastes good but also sells at a high price, similar to sugar mandarins, and is disease-resistant, so he had the idea of growing gonggan mandarins.

After cutting down the several mu of sugar mandarins that should be cut down and moving the ones that should be moved, he cleared two mu of fields to specifically grow gonggan mandarins.

Now he has been growing gonggan mandarins for two years. During these two years his family's sugar mandarins kept dying from disease, and all the new replants were gonggan mandarins. He wants to turn things around by growing gonggan mandarins, and after making money, make the villagers look at him with new respect.

Next year will be when the gonggan mandarins bear fruit, and he looks forward to seeing a good harvest next year.