China’s Watermelon Prices Crash: Mountains Unsold, Used for Feeding Cows & Pigs, Farmers Lose $280K 

Funny enough that there's Chinese netizens mocking Japan that they can't eat a whole watermelon without cashing out their monthly salary. Now their watermelon is dirt cheap and the farmers are crying.

Those farm animals are eating like kings

Now this makes it clear why new graduates and the unemployed would rather take their chances on the shrinking job markets in the cities than go back to their hometowns to farm. It's a choice between the rock and the hard place.

This means people knowingly chose fake food over real food

I will also say I’m not sure I want to eat anything grown in China. I don’t feel comfortable with the oversight of chemicals used.

Careful. I studied the blockade and how the South survived during the civil war. You can actually make granulated sugar from watermelon and sugar is valuable. Southern families tied up watermelon in linen bed sheets and allowed the juice to drain through and granulate. That is how people got sugar when the cane fields were destroyed.

A collapse in food markets could be the result of a drastic decrease in population.

Well, the livestock are happy.

Initially the farmers have it the hardest, but if they close up because they can't sell, there will be no fresh fruit and vegetables available. If the state is not substituting this, who knows where this situation will lead to...

They just don't have the right customers. They're still expensive in my grocery store. Maybe they could have been exported some to Taiwan, Japan, & S. Korea if they hadn't been so damn hostile all the time. You can feel bad for these specific farmers while also feeling some schadenfreude at the whole situation in China now.

I don’t know about the rural area, but the first women who says her husband is working so hard doesn’t look like someone is farming,, lol..unless the husband works 24/7 and she goes to the Spa and shopping she doesn’t exactly look like a farm Girl……..😮

This story blew my mind. I live in the United States in southern Nevada. I bought a watermelon at the supermarket yesterday. It cost $5.99. Tomatoes cost $1.00 per pound. Corn on the cob was $1.25 each. A 10 oz. beef ribeye steak cost $18.00.

Soon were gonna start calling the 50cent army, 25cent army.

Watermelons here average around 30-40 rmb ($4.20-$5.50 USD) depending on the weight. My wife and I buy 2-3 per week. They have been this price for the last 8 years that I have lived here. They charge the same price as in the US

What a waste

"Charity means FREE MONEY for ME!" - China

I don't see how growing watermelon tissue in stainless steal vats would be any different. U.S. farmers face the same problem with prices. If it's not that it's the weather.

Wow... retail price in Korea start from 20$ each.

It is so brutal and dreary for Chinese farmers as China suffers from weak domestic demand which has led to sluggish sales and low prices. To make matters worse, this is also inextricably linked to spontaneity of agricultural production without guaranteeing consumption. As such, prices are slumping but farmers can't still sell these goods off.

with a country that's filled with starving people how can watermelon prices crash leaving them for animal feed

I only feel sorry for the Actual Chinese Ppl who are burdened & exploited to the harsh extreme to levels unbelievable 😔

I saw some black diamond watermelons, please send them to the US!

Novel concept of govt. subsidizing farmers to control harvest output in relation to prices. 😆

Why chinese farmers always focus on one side one type..? They have land n they can divide it into many type of growth. Its like putting all the eggs into one basket. When the basket broke all the eggs are gone. Chinese should be smart n business minded. Follow the season look at the market n don be greedy n have some wisdom.😊😊

Oh, beautiful people why do this. It touches me very much.😢😢

Eat dirt?🤷 Maybe bartering for goods and service like they did in the old days. Everyone is too greedy

Does anyone else notice the woman in the first part's skin is NOT tan? It doesn't look like she's helping all that much.

Understand the situation. Best wishes to you.

I dont know, why are those farms so hot

I don't believe this, agri-products are good for exporting, impossible not able to sell this outside the country, or even make fruit wines

i thought food prices were going up... very odd

Blame your president for unfriendly behavior

Massive waste of resources.

The whitewashing housing sounds like Potemkin.

hey everyone becomes a farmer what can go wrong right???

In a free market cheap products presents amazingly good business opportunity. Tomatoes, raw corns, watermelon, tangerine are can also be used as raw materials to make juice🧃🥤 with a shelf life spanning years. This will ensure that the price is within reach. Seems like the Chinese are copycats They are not good at thinking .

OOF melons!

Watermelons are a luxury

Gov *send youth to rural areas to farm Youth *successfully farms despite lack of training or proper supplies resulting to chemicals People *steal the crops Youth *reports to government Gov * i see that as a win

How about you grow organic food, maybe then people will buy it, you know the kind of food that tastes good and also does not harm you

Do this watermelons have good and healthy water in it?

That's Karma.. putting whatever into their crops with all kinds of toxic chemicals that local people are disgusting, fed up and shun to buy local farm crops anymore That's why..

Melancholy

Meek and humble chinese got the greed fever Now they are all paying the price They need god to get them through

flooding the markets

1:17 I eat watermelon every day. Those watermelons don't look tasty at all. They're too long, not round like the sweet ones and they don't have any of the webbing left behind by bees and butterflies. It's as if not even the pollinating insects wanted to touch them. China needs to stop making such GMO watermelons covered in pesticides an grow a higher quality, organic product.

The farmers are so full of shit, they refuse to take cheaper prices to cover cost at least

Turn Watermelon into watermelon wine

Watermelon Here In the North East USA AMERICA is not Chip or $0.99 or $1.99 for Half Or A Whole Watermelon I Don’t Know Who Is Telling The Lies But Watermelon During Off Season is $8.95 & During Summer Season Is $7.95 or $6.99, But NEVER LESS Then $7.00 Unless It’s A Special Sale Rarely…..😢

more is less and less is more

At the Watermelon farmer's wife. He does all that WHAT DO YOU DO besides come on cam and cry about it ? Lol

It's over-capacity on everything. Greed, i think. 100s of car companies. Millions of apartments. They kill their own businesses and farms.

Export to Singapore, fruits are expensive there

This is even news?? Must be a slow news day. Surely there's more negative things you can criticise about China.

I'm curious. How accurate are the English translations for these videos? Any one speak Chinese who can verify that what we're being told is what is being said? I know these videos are meant to be anti-Chinese propaganda but I'm curious as to how much they're skewing the truth.

I recall other stories you guys made where people in the cities could afford anything to eat and are eating only once a day. I also recall my time in Xian where I was really surprised seeing homeless people. I mentioned to a Chinese colleague my surprised that a Communist country having homeless. He reply, if they don't conform then they don have a way to support themselves. Also surprised at some of the other things I noticed like street sweeper, meaning a group of people sweeping rather than have equipment performing the task. Another was a group of men using pitch forks and shovels to move a huge mound of metal chips into a dump truck. I again mentioned to my colleague why they juat didn't use a front-end loading. He said then those men wouldn't have jobs. Of my thought well the could have more productive jobs It is definitely a different way of thinking.

Bro and sis, export to Singapore...

China produce plenty of it so if not sold they either fed to farm animals or insects😂😂😂

what a shame

Can't they ship the watermellon to Africa?

You need to figure out how to make agricultural products from cardboard and gutter oil.

They should grow square melons like Japan

Well turn it into liquor

so they were making money but they wanted to make more money....

To much fake food what do they expect.

high quality melon with chemical? stop the crocodie tears.

the asian water melons are a plague.. all our good watermelon has gone to Asia and all the crappy watermelon from Asia is exported.. I am happy that this person has a crop they can't sell.

Shoulda had a v8 🎉❤

She should leave her husband and come live with me❤️❤️ She’s beautiful, and deserves only the best. Even though her husband sounds very honorable and hardworking

That girl used to much filter.

Naivity is the name of the game here.

So basically, ignorance about staggered crops, severe over supply, and chemical sweeteners did the market in

"If you make money, others are jealous, if you lose money they laugh at you" yep, that pretty much sums up the Chinese people.

Watermelon can be juiced, or fermented, and turned into wine. Food security is important, but China used to produce 95% of its food, now it only produces 65%.

I would be really hesitant to eat anything from China...

I seen in an other video where others pump watermellons whit chemicals and some kinds sweeteners 😢 I quess thats why watermelons crashed😢 Its really sad i never been at China but frome your videos and some others i seen basiclly everything is an scam i feel really sad and hope poor Chines souls dont feel forgoten😢❤

The chinese business model be like: -Oh hey the X thing looks like profitable, lets everyone do X until the market gets so saturated that we all lose money on it. Then repeat the same thing next with thing Y.

Well, seems like they are missing an opportunity to make watermelon wine.

People in China are complaining of escalating food prices. Farmers are complaining of no one buying their products. There is a major disconnect here.

the dilemma, we hear about Chinese produce dunked in whatever chemicals to make them look appealing, to look ripe, and so on, now, we here about them not being able to sell produce... should i feel sorry? what if these said produce are dunked in harmful chemicals or injected with prior to harvesting?

Only in china where they would rather destroy the watermelon then give it to people in need.

Watermelons, Houses, EVs, Electric bikes .... does anyone else see a pattern here?

That first womam. My husband works from morning to night and we have labour costs. Shes never picked a watermelon in her life

The problem is the whole ecomony is failing in China with huge unemployment problems. So one person sees someone making money doing something, and now you have 1000's stores or people selling the same thing or idea and basically flooding the market with way to many goods that you cannot sell. In the USA this is sort of protected by your city council and the permit system. For example we had a Super Walmart that wanted to go right next to a mall and the city said no way. There already was a Walmart store 8 miles away, and people can go there.

Poor farmers. I was a farmer and I can feel their pains. It’s really hurt, people.

what a disaster country

But the supermarket price is still not too low for watermellon in China，why?

So they trow food away? Can they make juice or jam? That will last few months.

Filming in farm but still maxed out the face filter. 🤣🤣

I don’t care what country you are in, farming is a crap shoot. If you have a good year you better hang onto it for the following 2 years of disaster. They have to depend on unpredictable weather, drought, rain arriving just as you need to start harvesting. Farming is tough work and I feel for the farmers around the world.

Watermelons. Sheep following sheep. Want to invest in property or electric vehicles next.. lol

Cows and Pigs "Happy Noise"

Some people find it contradictory that watermelons are difficult to sell despite their high prices. Let me explain the reasons behind this. First, watermelons are challenging to transport and preserve. They are highly prone to damage during transportation, and once ripe, their shelf life is very short. Second, consider the sales channels: if you are a supermarket owner selling watermelons with a short shelf life and high transportation costs, raising prices to maintain profit is the most natural choice. Third, in most regions of China, watermelon prices are so low that farmers are reluctant to transport them to cities and sell them at a discount. The transportation costs might exceed the sales revenue. Instead of letting the watermelons rot in the fields, farmers prefer to feed them to pigs. Finally, high-quality watermelons are actually not cheap in cities. The famous 8424 variety can cost between $10 and $20 each. In conclusion, what you find hard to understand is not necessarily unreasonable; it’s your perception and biases that prevent you from knowing the reasons behind it.

Okey the watermelon story caught me off guard didn't realize how much the Chinese enjoyed watermelons

Honestly watermelon-flavoured cow milk sounds good😂

Absolutely no conceptual understanding of market saturation or market forces in general.

Supply and demand is not that difficult.

That's why futures exist. Too bad China isn't as sophisticated. You know you can sell contracts for your crops at a fixed price so you don't get hosed when the demand goes down. The contract holder takes on the risk and speculate. It is so backwards to grow crop and "hope" the price will stay the way it is by the time they're ready.

Sadly a common tale in China , 'oversupply ' !

From California living in Shenzhen. Watermelon everywhere! Turn a corner and a street vendor will be selling them. Half a watermelon cut up in front of you is about $1.50usd. Awesome!