A crop that is treasure from head to toe: farmers plant it in their fields and harvest 3,000 per mu - is it the most profitable crop in the farming industry?

Everyone knows that in the past two years, garlic and ginger have been the two most profitable crops for farmers, but growing garlic brings one more source of income than ginger, and that is the garlic scapes that grow from the garlic.

Whenever the bulbs are about to mature, farmers harvest the garlic scapes ahead of time. Each garlic plant grows only one scape, so the price is not very cheap either.

On the market now, garlic scapes sell for about 3 yuan, but when wholesaled from the garlic farmers' hands they can only fetch 1 yuan. The main reason is that storage and shipping costs are relatively high. The garlic farmers did the math: if labor costs are not counted, they nearly lost money.

After harvesting the garlic scapes, farmers immediately dig up the garlic. Although garlic is treasure from head to toe, farmers who grow it generally only sell the garlic scapes and the garlic bulbs; the garlic leaves are thrown away because they cannot be stored and spoil easily.

Growing garlic is not a simple task either; there are many steps, and one of them is harvesting, cutting off the excess garlic leaves.

After the garlic is harvested, there is a lot of soil on it that also has to be removed from the machine, which takes considerable time and labor cost.

Garlic is an indispensable seasoning that every household puts in its cooking. Because garlic needs to be easy to store, farmers generally have to spend a week drying it in the sun before selling it.

Although garlic has already risen to 12 yuan per jin, when you think about it, farmers do not have it easy either. After deducting all costs, the income per mu is only 3,000 yuan! The main thing is that the distributors are the ones taking the money. The saying people often use, "garlic, you're ruthless," should not be aimed at the farmers!