Since 2020, betel nut has been eliminated from the "food" sequence, but it still has no effect on its sales. Young people are fascinated by it. Its price varies from 10 yuan, 30 yuan, 50 yuan and 100 yuan according to the brand and quality. Some consumers spend four or five thousand yuan a year chewing betel nut alone.

However, since Yiwu banned the sale of betel nut, it has aroused strong repercussions and disputes in the market. Many regulatory authorities required betel nuts to be removed from the shelves, and the price of fresh betel nuts began to plummet. Some middlemen even lost10 million. What happened? Where should betel nut industry go?

How harmful is betel nut?

If Yiwu hadn't banned the sale of betel nuts, I'm afraid many people didn't know how harmful betel nuts are to human health. In fact, as early as 2003, international organizations have listed betel nut as a carcinogen, at the same level as asbestos and formaldehyde.

For example, in India, betel nut is very popular. Only in Mumbai, an international city, 33% people have eaten betel nut, but the incidence of oral cancer in this country ranks first in the world.

As the pillar of betel nut industry in Hunan, the incidence of oral cancer is obviously higher because people chew betel nut for a long time. A report shows that among 45 patients with oral cancer in a hospital, 44 have long been dependent on betel nut.

From 2005 to 20 16, the incidence of oral cancer caused by betel nut continued to rise, and 16 was 7 times that of 2005.

Long-term consumption of betel nut will damage people's oral mucosa, and then oral ulcer, gum swelling and pain, oral leukoplakia and so on will appear. In turn, it will induce oral cancer and the face will become deformed.

Some time ago, a 36-year-old singer died of oral cancer caused by eat areca. Before he died, he advised everyone to stay away from betel nuts, but he generally didn't take it seriously.

But because betel nut is addictive, it stimulates and refreshes people, so many people will get used to eat areca, and many people think that betel nut will not affect their health.

In order to promote betel nut, some merchants even labeled it as "keeping healthy". They processed betel nut together with Lycium barbarum and Dendrobium nobile, thus making consumers think that eat areca can also keep fit.

Since betel nut was excluded from food in 2020, its identity has become extremely embarrassing. But some merchants only regard betel nut as a product with high medicinal value. Obviously, it is unrealistic to apply for listing it as a "medicine and food homologous" product. After all, betel nut is already a drug in Turkey, Australia and other countries.

Fresh fruit prices plummeted 12 yuan.

Nowadays, the chain reaction caused by the storm of betel nut beauty is also continuing. After Yiwu, many other cities in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Sichuan provinces also began to sell betel nuts, and they were not allowed to sell them.

Although it can be sold in other cities, many operators complain that the sales of betel nuts have dropped significantly, and many people are afraid to eat any more.

There are also some agents who say that betel nut may be banned at any time, and they dare not buy more in large quantities for fear of falling into their hands.

Some stores no longer replenish their products frequently, and then notify the agents to replenish them when the betel nut products are sold out.

Because betel nut is no longer food, it is also required to be placed in the non-food area when selling, which makes some merchants complain about the increase in display costs.

However, those growers and middlemen should be the hardest hit. We should know that the scale of China's betel nut industry is as high as 70 billion yuan, of which the output value of Hainan betel nut is 20 billion yuan.

Since the betel nut storm, the wholesale price of fresh fruit has dropped from the previous pound in 30 yuan to 18 yuan, which has caused many fruit farmers to complain.

You should know that the price of 12 yuan fluctuates greatly, the wholesale price has fallen to 18 yuan, and the price of origin has already fallen below 10 yuan.

Some fruit farmers complain that the requirements for receiving goods from middlemen are stricter now. Fruits that are too big and old are basically not collected, unlike in the past, which are collected according to size.

However, middlemen also have difficulties. Every year, fresh betel nuts are put into the cold storage and sold one by one.

However, before the betel nut storm, fresh fruit was purchased at the land price of 22 yuan per catty, and it cost 50 million yuan, and it was all baked. But now the wholesale price has dropped to 18 yuan, which means that as long as it is sold, it will lose money.

In desperation, the middlemen had to put the goods in the cold storage to wait and see the follow-up market, but they were not optimistic about the future market, saying that this wave would lose at least100000 yuan.

Where is betel nut going?

At present, the planting area of Areca catechu in Hainan Province is 654.38+024.7 thousand hectares, and the harvesting area is 8.85 hectares. Last year, the total output exceeded 280,000 tons.

Betel nut is expensive, but the planting cost is high. A tree usually takes six years to bear fruit. One acre of land can plant 120 trees, and the yield is only 1500 kg.

Over the years, with the high price of betel nut, the low cost of its packaging has increased, and the total cost is about 6-8 yuan, including fertilization and labor costs.

After the price is reduced in this way, farmers will work hard for one year and earn only about 3000-4000 yuan per mu of land.

Lao Guo, a fruit grower in Qiongzhong, said that before he planted fruit trees, the benefits were not very good. Because he planted betel nut in 17, the price last year was considerable, and the price of the place of origin was 15 yuan a catty. At that time, the annual income of planting betel nut was more than 10. Now the price of betel nut has fallen below 10 yuan, and the cost remains high. You can't earn a few in a busy year.

Indeed, behind the betel nut ban, the income of farmers will drop sharply.

But then again, the betel nut industry should also speed up the transformation, otherwise, I'm afraid there will be a terrible situation in 20 13. After all, the land price of betel nut fell to 1 yuan, and both farmers and middlemen lost money.