What happened to Longans this year?

[CM4Me]

This years harvest only produced a very small profit, after allowing for production costs.

Yields are down, prices are down. Why?

[Tywais]

Not sure where you are but Chiang Mai seemed to have a bumper crop which knocked the market price down. Lot's of complaints here about the low price (sellers, not buyers) . We don't farm but we have a tree in our front yard and about 200kg came off it.

[slapout]

What kind of a price was quoted? Many farmers are selling to brokers( on the tree) who supply manpower for harvest, transport etc.

[robertthebruce]

Not sure where you are but Chiang Mai seemed to have a bumper crop which knocked the market price down. Lot's of complaints here about the low price (sellers, not buyers) . We don't farm but we have a tree in our front yard and about 200kg came off it.

Amazing or what, well done.... Love them so so nice to eat...

[RedBullHorn]

Usually it is contract purchase at 1'000 Baht per tree at one viewing... if agree... wholesaler bring his harvesting team in...

[RedBullHorn]

Grand MIL got 800 trees... after variable cost of 200'000 Baht, she is left with 600'000 of pocket money for a whole year.

[CM4Me]

Some of the quoted returns for this year are rather hard to believe. For example around San Pa Tong (CNX)the average price received by farmers was

2013 2014

Grade AA 20.2B/kg 16.2B/kg

Grade A 13.9B/kg 6.0B/kg

Grade B 6.4B/kg 2.4B/kg

Grade C 1.0B/kg 0.5B/kg