Sugar mandarins have always been a hot-selling fruit, especially during the Chinese New Year, when they are a great gift product. Not only are they delicious, they also look beautiful. During the New Year they are always in very high demand, and in non-producing areas the price can reach more than 10 yuan per jin, and many fruit farmers have made money.

Farmers plant like crazy, and Guangxi's sugar mandarin planting area breaks through 6 million mu

Guangxi farmers have tasted the sweetness of sugar mandarins, so naturally they have the confidence and the motivation to grow them. Some plant as a whole family, with the whole household, young and old, renting dozens of mu of land to plant, just wanting to make even more money.

And farmers with the same idea are not few; they plant sugar mandarins on as little as a few mu or as much as several hundred mu, feeling that if they are a bit late the money will be earned out and they will earn less themselves.

Behind these crazy actions is the year-by-year increase in Guangxi's sugar mandarin planting area. By this year, Guangxi's sugar mandarin planting area has even reached 6 million mu, and output can reach 8 million tons. Seeing this number, it is truly crazy.

With so many farmers growing sugar mandarins, can they still make money?

Output that is too high can bring many problems. Once supply exceeds demand, then the more the fruit farmers plant, the more they lose. Planting is not without risk; if huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) is encountered again, bankruptcy is even possible.

Of course, farmers can actually still make money another way. Since growing sugar mandarins is high-risk, farmer friends can grow saplings.

At present, Guangxi has a shortage of more than 5 million disease-free saplings, and I believe that if everyone grows these disease-free saplings there will still be a very good market. Farmer friends should not just keep their eyes fixed on growing sugar mandarins. Growing saplings gives a higher yield per mu, and an output value of 20,000 to 30,000 per mu is still possible, whereas sugar mandarins require management all year round, with even higher time and material costs.

In short, whether sugar mandarins can still make money - as things stand now, they still can, and the current price is still holding firm. As for how many more years the market will last, that depends on whether the planting area and output become severely excessive. Today, growing sugar mandarins is still a very profitable way to make money, and farmer friends can still grow them.