Chapter 183: Heavy Losses [5/4]
Looking at the traces of the flood on the road, you will know how heavy the rain last night was.
And the downstream situation seems to be very serious...
No matter what the situation is downstream, Chen Yuan and the others can't help, and staying here will cause trouble.
Chen Yuan drove the car over.
Zhang Xingguo sat in the driver's seat and spoke on the phone with Zhang Feng. He asked about the situation on the company...
Laojiu Transportation Company is distributed in Tingzhou, just downstream. Now the road is closed and cannot be passed.
Zhang Feng talked about the situation on their side and it was flooded. The flood flooded the first floor bedroom... The water was almost at the knee of the parking lot. Moreover, the water level was still rising. There was no road to pass... But there were already soldiers passing by and organizing the evacuation.
Zhang Xingguo told them to pay attention to safety and contact any situation at any time. Then he drove around with Chen Yuan. Some orchards with poor drainage were filled with water. However, most orchards only had water in the ditches.
At the same time, the super typhoon last night ravaged the entire Tingzhou plain. All the lychee orchards that had not had time to pick were in trouble.
The losses of high-tree lychees are the most severe, such as those from Qingmu Farm, which are high-tree lychees. High-tree lychees have high yields, but picking is troublesome, and you need to use a climbing ladder to pick them. The losses in the dwarf lychees are smaller because the fruit trees are short and the impact of typhoons on these lychees is relatively small. However, it is estimated that more than 50% of the lychees on the branches are blown down.
There are about 20,000 acres of lychees on the Tingzhou Plain, most of which are of very precocious quality.
The earliest ripe lychees this year, March red, started picking in mid-February. The concubine laughed only in April... The lychees left on the trees are also the concubine laughed, and some of them are March red, as well as lychees without seedless lychees, lychees king and so on.
There are also large areas of betel nut, as well as rambutan, longan and other fruits planted in Tingzhou.
Rambutan and longan fruits are not yet ripe and have a huge loss.
Chen Yuan estimated that the one who suffered greater losses should be Lingshui. As for other places, he didn't dare to think about it.
The concubines in Lingshui laughed, and there were more lychees like Baitang Pooh. The lychees planting area in Lingshui seems to be about 30,000 acres... and the wind should be stronger there.
After walking around, Chen Yuan saw many fruit farmers picking up lychees in the orchard...
When I went back to Grandma Valley, the workers were having dinner. Chen Yuan went over to eat some, organized people to resume the road to Gem Farm, and also organized some people to go to Qingmu Farm to pick up lychees that were blown off by the wind last night...
The lychees here are as big as table tennis balls. The storm blew, making the lychee trees sway left and right, and the lychees that still survived on the trees were probably gone without even 500 kilograms.
This batch of lychees are big and sweet, but they are blown to the ground by the wind and will definitely not be able to sell for the price.
Chen Yuan went over to organize the workers to open the way. When he came back, the baby and the others were already picking up lychees on the farm.
The rain has finally stopped now.
The vineyards are draining, but the entire vineyard is still flooded.
...
The lychee trees are listless, and when they shake gently, many water droplets fall down.
"It's miserable, it's miserable, and it's been lost to millions." Chen Xiaogang came out of the durian garden and said to Baofeng.
The loss of this lychee garden is at least more than 400,000 yuan.
Although there are only 5 acres of lychees, the lychees here are densely packed with lychees, with a yield of at least 40,000 kilograms.
When Chen Yuan came into the litchi garden, he saw the litchi on the ground densely packed and stacked...
The rambutan tree here is also tall in the Rambutan Garden next door. Fortunately, it was set up before. But the rambutan that was not yet mature has also fallen half.
The combined losses of the rambutan and lychee garden are estimated to be 600,000 to 700,000. This is a conservative estimate...
The one who suffered greater losses was the durian garden. Chen Yuan hasn't visited the specific losses yet.
Say I feel sorry, I must be feeling sorry.
Especially rambutans. These rambutans have not yet matured and have fallen half of them, which should be more than half.
"Brother..." Chen Xiao shouted.
"Husband." The baby was holding a lychee in his mouth.
Chen Yuan nodded with a smile and walked into the orchard: "None of these lychees are broken, right?"
"Somewhat is broken," the baby said, picking up a lychee with a crack.
"Don't pick up broken lychees. Pick up the selected lychees..." Chen Yuan said.
"Mr. Chen, do you still have to sell these lychees?" An Chengping said: "We want to buy some."
"What are you buying? After picking up the lychees, each person will take them back for 20 kilograms." Chen Yuan said: "If you don't have enough, take them again."
"Can't these fallen lychees be sold?" the baby asked in a low voice.
"If you can sell, you can sell it, but you will definitely not be able to sell it for a good price." Chen Yuan shrugged: "Chen Xiao, can you collect these lychees?"
Chen Xiao shook his head and nodded again: "Cash is the price. After all, that's not my company alone."
Chen Yuan then called Zhou Wen: "Hey, Lao Zhou..."
"ah."
"All the lychees on my side were blown off by the wind. Will you collect them when you fall to the fields?"
"Fresh, not broken, I will charge it. But I don't know what the price is yet." Zhou Wen saw the traces left by the typhoon on the highway: "I heard that the lychees in Lingshui cost 30 cents per pound, but I don't know if they are true."
"3 cents per kilogram, the picking fee is not enough." During the lychee picking season, workers are invited to pick it. One kilogram of lychee costs 3-7 cents. The price of short lychees is cheap, and the picking fee for high branches is expensive...
"No way, there are many lychees blown off by the wind. There are traffic jams on the highway... By the way, what's going on in Gem Farm?"
"I haven't gone yet. The disaster on the Tingzhou Plain is also very serious. On the road on the Grandma Valley, trees blown down by strong winds cannot get past. After passing outside the valley, it was flooded again... It seems that the mountain collapsed from the lower reaches of the river." Chen Yuan said: "My uncle's transportation company was flooded by heavy water. I guess your acquisition point was also flooded."
"I know... the government is organizing rescue. It should be restored soon. Are you suffering serious losses?" Zhou Wen asked again.
"Serious..." Chen Yuan said.
"Hahaha... Brother, I'm in a difficult situation. If the cargo ship cannot leave the port this afternoon, I might be bankrupt." Zhou Wendao.
Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment: "So serious?"
"Yes." Zhou Wen nodded in a deep voice: "I'm so greedy."
Zhou Wen had five or six thousand tons of lychees pressed in the warehouse. All of his batches were collected for 5-9 yuan. Different lychees have different prices. Some were lychees worth more than ten yuan per kilogram…
Time is money when doing fruit business in the South Island. This is not only for fruit merchants, but also for fruit farmers.
The prices are different one day earlier and one day later.
The most important thing is that fruits come out of the island. When a typhoon comes, no matter what fruit you are, as long as it is a fruit, it will blow it to the ground. The fruits that are affected are not just lychees. A large number of affected fruits will leave the port later...
The mango planting area in the South Island is more than 800,000 mu, and the annual output can exceed 1 million tons.
The lychee planting area is more than 300,000 mu, of which the harvested area is about 260,000 mu, and the total annual output can reach 300,000 tons.
There are also many fruits...
Among them, lychees are very operational fruits.
On South Island, the earliest ripe lychees were in February.
From February to May, the price of lychees in South Island is very high because the lychees in the inland are not yet ripe. Fruit merchants can earn two or three yuan per pound of lychees, or even more if they buy lychees.
Don’t underestimate two or three dollars. A big fruit merchant like Zhou Wen will purchase hundreds of tons or thousands of tons. But it is not easy to make this money. You must control every link of logistics and leave the island within 30 hours after picking. This is still a lychee treated with potions. If you do not soak the potions, you will leave the island 12 hours after picking... Efficiency is money.
But if something happens, like this super typhoon, it will be miserable.
Chapter completed!