Harbin: Farmers Encounter "Marten Hard"

Compared with the late cold weather, this year, mink farming enterprises in Harbin encountered unprecedented "severe winter": last year, the price of each male mink was about 470 yuan, and the female mink was 370 yuan. This year, the mink skin is 280 yuan each, and the female mink is 190 yuan each.

　　 A Danish mink "pull" town Aquaculture

In December 2005, the first batch of 18 thousand Danish mink arrived from the Nordic town of Cape Town in Shangzhi City. Gao Tai animal husbandry started the prelude of Harbin mink industry.

With the pure Danish mink coming to the town of Mao er Shan, Xu Jiabao, the general manager of Gao Tai property, is ambitious. "If only one enterprise can develop further, it will be difficult to achieve a climate. Only when a certain scale of industry is formed within a certain area, can the right of discourse be controlled in the market, so that profits can be maximized."

"Gao Tai" settled in Mao er Shan, and established an enterprise integrating mink farming, feed processing and skin processing. In the past second years, the development of enterprises has been on the right track. Xu Jiabao said, "I imported the mink from Denmark, and also got the money. From Denmark, I imported" technicians "from 700 thousand yuan in annual salary. The mink was settled and bred in Harbin successfully. In the second years, 18 thousand Danish mink imported into 52 thousand. The villagers near the town of Mao ershan saw this little thing so magical. Soon, a lot of people joined the mink industry. From here I picked Martens, and I also provided technical support for them, and then offered feed at below cost. " By the end of 2012, in addition to "Gao Tai", there had been 26 large-scale mink breeding enterprises in Mao er Shan town. In recent years, the demand for fur has increased sharply, and the price of fur has been rising. Local farmers have tasted the benefits of raising mink.

Mink farming in Harbin started late in the whole country, but its quality was "excellent" from the beginning. According to the relevant personnel of animal husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of Shangzhi City, because the mink breed, breeding method and epidemic prevention situation are different, the quality of the fur produced by the mink is also very different, and the market price is quite different. Because the geographical environment of Mao ershan town is very similar to that of Denmark, the mink farmers in Harbin now breed Denmark mink, which is the most popular market in the market, and is also a top grade product in marten, which is very popular among purchasers. In the Danish mink breeding industry in China, ice city has the right to speak.

　　 A wave of high price boom

In 2010, 2011 and 2012, the price of marten purchase has been rising. In 2013, the price of fur has been the best in the past decade, and mink farmers have made a full pot.

"Raising mink is almost the same as picking up money!" "a mink is 100 yuan and the profit is 100 yuan. Although the cost is high, the returns are very substantial. More and more people went into the mink farming industry without thinking. In 2013 alone, the number of mink households increased from 26 to 100, and mink stocks increased rapidly from 1 million to 2 million. "A lot of people are lending, or even through the usury to build mink farms. There are tens of thousands of large stocks and five hundred or six hundred small ones." Xu Jiabao told reporters that almost every day there were people queuing up to "learn the scriptures" from his mink field. He also advised euphemistically that we should never be blind. We should have long-term plans for raising mink. But these people couldn't hear it. There was only one thought: raising mink = making big money.

　　 A big "diving" brings "hard marten".

After a large number of farmers went on the horse, they did not expect to encounter the cold winter of fur industry this year. Xu Jiabao said that this year, when the worst went down, the purchase price was 60% lower than that of the same period last year. Even now it has recovered, which is 40% lower than last year. After careful calculation, this year, raising a mink has to pay about 90 yuan, and the more we raise, the more we lose.

even Harbin When the mink "enjoy" is making a good calculation of their debts, Lao Ye Chen, a new owner who built up a mink field with loans and money raising money last year, had to sell his own mink field everywhere. The harvest season did not see the harvest results. He had to build artificial and feed money everyday. "The family is rich and the wool is not counted!" said Lao Chen. The price of building and buying sable is all high. Where the price of marten goes down in second years, when he decided to start mink farming, he also made preparations for not making money, but it was unexpected that he lost it.

Compared with the new owners who can also temporarily support Chen, there are still many farmers choosing to kill marten: "otherwise, they will lose more." It is understood that the purchase price of mink plummeted, so that all mink enterprises across the country are facing serious losses.

Compared with the past, why did the price of marten purchase go up so much this year? The reason is that the high price of fur in 2013 has raised a ferret fever in the national aquaculture industry. The mink households have expanded the scale of farming, and the off site funds have been scrambling to intervene, resulting in oversupply of marten skin this year. In addition, due to the warm winter last year, resulting in a certain stock of mink garments, coupled with the decline in the consumption ability of the market in recent two years, this contradiction intensified further.

Xu Jiabao told reporters that international fur prices have been rising for 4 years, the last decline occurred in 2008 and 2009. At that time, influenced by the international financial crisis and the oversupply of the last marten, the price of mink in China has plunged sharply. During the crisis, many of the two mink farming provinces in Liaoning and Shandong killed many mariculs and left them unmercifully. "At that time, mink farming in Harbin had just started, and the impact was not as fierce as this year."

　 The bottom line of a "bad performance"

The mink industry here is gloomy, and the sales terminal there is in full swing.

According to the insiders, with the support of several fur selling platforms such as Harbin Haining Leather City, Harbin Hongkong fur city, Harbin Tong Er Fort fur city, etc., there are 1200 fur processing enterprises terminal stationed in Harbin, with ice city as the axis, opening the fur war between the three northeastern provinces, Inner Mongolia, and Russia, and the gate of Mongolia.

　　 Mink The price plunges, and the price of fur is not "carried". Starting from the beginning of the industrial chain, the price of the terminal directly determines the market price of the terminal. It is understood that although the overall decline in this year has not yet achieved accurate results, this year's sales season showed a marked downward trend. "We bought two pieces of fur last year, and we can buy three pieces of fur of the same grade this year." "Eleven" before the opening of the new China Haining Leather City, a number of businesses have said that this year, Harbin fur prices plummeted, abundant sources of goods, sellers keen competition, sales and aquaculture, is also facing a "cold winter".

" Leather and fur The price is not good enough to predict. This is a very close industry with international standards. The global market is rising and the global market is falling. China is the world's largest fur and garment processing country. 70% of the world's fur is processed in the mainland of China, and the raw materials come from all the mink breeding countries all over the world. Unlike other aquaculture industries, this industry is not regulated by local governments and will not be affected by any country or large enterprise. " Heilongjiang Province leather industry association, general secretary Meng said: "although Harbin has gathered more than 1000 merchants this year, the sale of fur products from merchants to Harbin is not directly related to Harbin's local aquaculture industry."

Xu Jiabao's confidence was not defeated in a series of ups and down. "When I chose to build a site in Mao er Shan, I was optimistic that this forest area was similar to the Danish environment. Denmark is a very developed mink breeding country, accounting for 45% of the total mink farming in the world. Breeding experience in recent ten years has also proved that Danish mink lives very well in the Mt. The number of mink farms in a county town of Shandong Province reaches 9 million 600 thousand, but only the quantity is not of quality, and even a dry skin can be bought for 80 yuan. This year, the price of marten prices is actually a warning: we should not blindly follow suit. We must have enough risk resistance to go into the industry and develop in an orderly way.

Xu Jiabao said that the farmers who killed the mink out of Mao ershan town this year were all new farmers who hit the horse last year. The 26 breeding plants built before 2012 successfully passed the crisis. He has done research in Shangzhi area. Harbin is only surrounded by Shangzhi City. The development of mink herds to 67 million is not a problem. As long as the quality is guaranteed, there is no market without money.

According to the insiders, the consumption of international fur is increasing year by year. Originally, it is the fur product of luxury goods in the cold area. Now it has opened up the market in the subtropics and tropical areas. Besides the fur coats that the North needs, all kinds of clothing, shoes and hats accessories are increasing the use of fur. In the past, fur coats used to keep out the cold are becoming more and more fashionable and popular, and sales are increasing. This is Xu Jiabao's bottom line. The terminal market is expanding, and farming will be profitable.