If in previous years pepper seedlings in the Central Highlands were always “expensive like hot cakes”, this year this variety has become more sluggish than ever because there are no buyers.
The scene of customers buying pepper varieties is no longer seen…
In the past years, each pot of pepper seed cost from 5-7 thousand VND / pot, sometimes up to 10 thousand VND / pot, now the price is as low as 1/3 compared to before (from 1.5 -2 thousand VND). /voo) no one even asked to buy. The main reason for this was determined that recently, the price of pepper has continuously dropped sharply, the supply is too abundant, there is a lot of surplus, so this crop makes farmers no longer interested in it, but switch to it. to invest in other crops.
This is recorded by us at business establishments, producing crops in the Central Highlands, especially at Nguyen Luong Bang Street, Hoa Thang Commune, City. Buon Ma Thuot – the closing area of the Central Highlands Agro-Forestry Science and Technology Institute.
At the seedling establishment of Mr. Le Van Duc, hamlet 8, Hoa Thang commune, city. We clearly see the gloomy atmosphere of this seedling in Buon Ma Thuot. Unlike previous years, pepper seedlings are now no longer likened to the “queen” of seedlings, but they are abandoned in the boredom of farmers when talking about it.
Sharing with us, Mr. Le Van Duc said: “If in 2016 the price of pepper seeds was high at over 5 thousand VND / seed, we sold thousands of pepper seeds, in 2017 despite the price. The pepper gourd is less than 2 thousand dong/pot, but our place has only sold a few dozen sporadic gourds for farmers to plant miles into the dead pepper garden.
If pepper varieties in the Central Highlands are so low, instead of coffee varieties and fruit tree varieties, the number of buyers this year has increased significantly. According to the Dak Lak Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the province now has 11,435 hectares of fruit trees of all kinds, an increase of nearly 16% over the same period last year. In which, durian area is 2,880 ha (an increase of 270 ha compared to 2016); avocado 2,414 ha (increasing 442 ha); oranges, tangerines and citrus fruit trees 1,137 ha (increasing 463 ha); banana 1,369 ha (an increase of 98 ha); Longan, litchi, rambutan 811 ha (up 53 ha)… Most of the increase in area is due to people intercropping in coffee gardens or converting from coffee, old rubber to fruit trees…
However, experts have warned farmers not to arbitrarily change the crop structure massively according to the movement, because rushing to plant this type of tree can lead to an oversupply situation similar to some trees. planted other trees before, then have to cut down.
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