Consumption, storage, circulation, processing and production of garlic?
Our country is the biggest garlic production and consumption country in world. Garlic planting area is approximately 5-6 million Chinese mu, taking the 1/3 of the global garlic cultivation area which is 14 million Chinese mu and the 1/2 of Asia. There are 3 million cultivation area in Shandong province which is half of total planting area of whole country. In recent years, garlic becomes the first export vegetable of our country to change to foreing currency. Annual export quantity is 330,000 tons. Last year, export quantity is 1,090,000 tons which is highest level in export history. The major planting concentration of the garlic of our country is in Jin xiang, Yu Tai and Cang Shan, Chi Ping and Lai Wu which all are Shandong province; there are Pi Zhou, She Yang in Jiang ; there are Qixian and Zhongmou in Henan province; there are Bozhou in Anhui province; there are Pengzhou and Wenzhang in Sichuan province. And the places such as Dali Yunnan province.
Garlic belongs to the seasonal vegetable of all the year round consumption. After the harvest of Garlic, its rest period is 2 ～ 3 months generally. Afterwards, at 3 ℃～28 ℃ temperature environment, garlic can quickly sprout and grow leaf , the nutrition in stem is consumed quickly, cause bulb atrophy and shriveled. Its edible value will reduce greatly , even begin to rotten. With companies of vegetable storage and processing increasing and Along with the enlargement of international market demand, domestic garlic storage and transportation industry develop very fast in last few years. Objectively it needs a more modern circulation channel, which is connected with international market and raise circulation speed to dissolve price risk.
The factors that influence garlic price
1 climate condition;
2 plant area;
3 import and export condition and trading policy
4 the price of international market
5 the standard of trade garlic
Commercial garlic standard SB/T10348-2002 of People's Republic of China has promulgated. Our market combines the actual condition of trade, circulation, on-hand stock and melts carefully the relevant rules about first-class garlic standard. On this foundation, our market has established our own trade standard of garlic and have announced to relevant department to keep in record.
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