The Price Of Liaoning Cashmere Goat, Commonly Known As "Soft Gold"

Liaoning cashmere goat, which is produced in Liaodong Peninsula, is a local fine breed cultivated independently in our country. It can produce cashmere and meat, and has high economic value. It is one of the few prohibited varieties in China.

In 2001, the Liaoning velvet goat's original velvet was classified as "fine first class" after being assessed by the Bureau of fiber inspection of Liaoning province.

It is also known as "soft gold".

Farmers in many counties and cities in the Liaodong peninsula have raised Liaoning cashmere goats for a long time. Zhuanghe's step Yun Shan township is one of the earliest breeding areas for Liaoning cashmere goats, and there are many cashmere goat farmers.

The price of the purchase has caught the farmers unprepared. In the face of a fall or fall, the few remaining farmers began to murmur. Why did "soft gold" sell "brass" price in the past?

Getting rich now becomes a burden.

Zhuanghe is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Dalian. It is 3 hours' drive from Dalian, from Zhuanghe to bu Yun Shan, and it will take another 2 hours.

Bu Yun Shan township used to be one of the important producing areas of Liaoning cashmere goats, and the history of breeding cashmere goats lasted decades.

"At that time, it was not called cashmere goats, but later the varieties were improved, and the yield was higher and the price went up."

Farmer Yu Shue said.

Cashmere goats have brought a lot of benefits to local farmers. They are one of the important sideline businesses in the country. According to Yu Shue, there were dozens of sheep in the village before.

"We have raised 15 sheep this year. At the very beginning, a sheep can be combed 782. When it is the most expensive, it sells for 120 yuan a Jin, and at the cheapest time it can also sell seventy or eighty yuan a Jin.

At that time, our family raised forty or fifty sheep, and sold ten thousand or twenty thousand times a year to sell lamb.

Of course, the so-called "velvet" is raw material that has not been processed thoroughly, which is far from what we often call the common pile.

In recent years, the cashmere goat farmers in the whole Zhuanghe area have been decreasing. Statistics show that in 2009, the output of Liaoning cashmere goats in Zhuanghe reached 190 thousand, and now only ten thousand or twenty thousand of them were left. The only reason why farmers give up sheep raising is not to make money.

Nowadays, it is no easy task to find a farmer in the village of Bu Yun Shan. The reporter inquired about it and finally found a farmer Zhang Zhongqiang in the village of Bu Yun Shan.

When the reporter visited, Zhang Zhongqiang was shearing wool to a one year old cashmere goat. The four hoofs of the sheep were all tied up, and they did not match well.

"It's just a lamb. It can't be combed, it can only cut wool."

Zhang Zhongqiang said that such Plush wool can not be sold at all, and the purchase price is forty or fifty yuan a kilogram. Pure wool is cheaper, and the purchase price is only one yuan a Jin, so Zhang Zhongqiang cut it not so carefully. "No mood!" he loosened the little ram who had just cut the wool, and the lamb ran away.

The purchase price began to go down in April.

The best age for cashmere goats is between 3 and 6. Cashmere goats at this age will not be sheared, but combed.

Zhang Zhongqiang said that the cashmere that was combed was the most valuable and the biggest profit point for cashmere goats.

Farmers feel unacceptable.

April and May is the time to sell velvet, but the price of catty cashmere is up to two hundred fifty yuan per catty last year. But in April of this year, the price of the cashmere buying and selling merchants was reduced to 210 yuan a Jin.

Zhang Zhongqiang wrote accounts to reporters: "I have more than 40 sheep, of which ten can only be combed, and each sheep can produce a catty to a Jin and a half. Other sheep can sell plush, forty or fifty yuan a Jin.

According to last year's purchase price, I sold six thousand or seven thousand of wool and cashmere this year, and sold some lambs and live sheep. The 3 month old lambs sold for 300 yuan. Last year they sold seven or eight, and a year old live sheep weighed about fifty or sixty kilograms, with an average of 15 yuan a Jin and seven hundred or eight hundred yuan each.

Last year, after a busy year, Zhang Zhongqiang did not earn much money. If he had not made some profits from fruit trees, he might have lost money. So he saw that the price of 210 yuan a kilogram this year, he decided not to sell for the time being, waiting for the price to slow down again, but unexpectedly, the purchase price fell all the way.

When the sheep in the mountains are combed, they wait for the small dealers to come to collect them. Zhang Zhongqiang does not have the telephone numbers of these dealers, nor does he know their names. Whoever sells them to him will sell them to them. How much money they say is how much they are, and other sheep farmers in the village sell cashmere as well.

The reporter asked him if he knew where the cashmere would be sold. Zhang Zhongqiang answered honestly, "I don't know." the reporter asked him if he knew what price the cashmere sweater was outside, and he answered "I don't know."

It is precisely because they know nothing about the market situation every year. When farmers sell cashmere, they are like gambling. They earn their own happiness and sell their own losses.

"In April, 210 yuan a Jin I did not sell, the back all the way down, cashmere price one day, two weeks later fell to 150 yuan a Jin.

The price of cashmere is like a stock, one price per day. "

Zhang Zhongqiang said.