Abalone prices are low this year, and farmers are losing money. After working hard for a year, they not only didn't earn money, but also lost money. What caused the price of abalone to drop this year?
Yang is a local abalone farmer and abalone purchaser. In Yang's aquatic products outlet, he is sorting out the newly bought abalone today. Now is the peak season of abalone sales, and it is also the highest selling price of abalone in a year. For example, 10 head of abalone, and the purchase price he gave was 44 yuan Jin.
Yang, manager of Fujian Putian Haifa Aquatic Products Development Co., Ltd.: 44 abalone 10 bought from the island arrived in 45 yuan. The price last year was better than this year. Last year, the price of 10 abalone was around 50 yuan, but this year, it has dropped by more than 10 yuan.
Farmer Yang is buying abalone fry at an aquaculture base in Putian Island. Because of the low price of abalone, Yang sold all the finished abalone early and hurried back to the nursery.
Yang, an abalone farmer in Lianjiang County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province: Last year, we raised a cage of abalone with a normal income of 200 yuan. The price is very low this year, and the lowest price (per catty 12 head) has been sold to 40 yuan.
12 head of finished abalone sold in 40 yuan. Calculated, an abalone is more than 3 yuan, which is equivalent to the price of a cabbage. Abalone sells cabbage prices, which makes many abalone farmers complain.
Lin: (10 abalone culture), general manager of Putian Zhenhai Babao Aquatic Science and Technology Co., Ltd., Fujian Province, costs more than 700 yuan for a cage, and the selling price is around 500 yuan, and a cage loses more than 200 yuan.
The price of abalone rose in the year before last and the year before last, and the average selling price was around a catty of 60 yuan, which made farmers make a fortune. Yang, who tasted the sweetness, expanded the breeding scale to 4000 cages in one breath this year, but he didn't want to lose money.
Yang, an abalone farmer in Lianjiang County, Fuzhou: There are more than 2,000 cages in 20 17 years, almost 3,000 cages in 20 18 years and 3,000 cages in 20 19 years, which are increasing every year.
The reporter learned that since the previous year, abalone farmers in Rinan Island in Putian, Lianjiang in Fuzhou and Dongshan in Zhangzhou have all expanded their breeding scale, and the breeding area has doubled compared with the previous year, while the growth period of abalone is two years, so the supply of abalone has increased significantly this year.
Yang Jianzhong, Chairman of Fujian Dongyu Ocean Health Food Co., Ltd.: Because the price of abalone was high in 20 17, and the price of fry was cheap, there were many fry in that year, and everyone tried their best to get them, resulting in overcapacity this year.
Due to the weather, abalone is too small this year, and the price can't go up. Coupled with the shrinking domestic high-end catering market and exports, abalone sales are not smooth this year.
Lin, general manager of Fujian Putian Zhenhai Babao Aquatic Technology Co., Ltd.: The number of abalone going abroad this year has been reduced by half compared with previous years. The price is also lower than in previous years, and the same specifications are 30% lower than last year.