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Why are crayfish becoming more and more expensive?

The reason why crayfish are expensive is, of course, that too many people eat them, resulting in a shortage of supply.

I think crayfish is expensive for the following reasons:

1. Large market demand

Crayfish is known as the "little prince of midnight snacks", which shows how popular it is. In many places, if you don't order spicy crayfish at the midnight snack stalls, it's like you haven't had a midnight snack. The market is very hot. The market demand determines its rising prices.

2. Supply imbalance

Let's put it this way. People always say that crayfish are popular and delicious, but we don't see many of them in night snacks or restaurants in places like ours, especially in small cities. Some people raise crayfish, and some cities sell them themselves, while most of them are sold to big cities. Because of price factors, population, etc., big cities have a large demand, while small cities have less. In the process of transporting to big cities, the transportation cost and loss will also increase. This extra money will definitely be added to the consumers, so the price will also go up.

3. Comprehensive factors affect the output

One is the weather. The weather in recent years is really confusing. Sometimes it is severe drought, sometimes it is heavy snow, and then there is a climax, a typhoon, and then a rainstorm and mountain torrents. The most important thing for breeding is a stable and suitable environment. These extreme weather conditions will seriously affect the breeding and production of crayfish, resulting in many diseases, small size, and low yield.

The second is the geographical environment. Due to the limitations of water conditions and geographical and climatic conditions, lobsters cannot be raised in all places across the country. They can be raised in ponds, but ponds cannot be dug in all cultivated land; they can be raised in rice fields, but we must prevent crayfish from drilling into the rice fields, especially in mountainous rice fields.

4. Feed costs

Although crayfish are omnivorous and easy to feed, they still need to open their mouths to eat, so they have to find food, which costs money. Even if you grow your own green fodder, it will cost time, labor, and seeds. And what about animal bait? Compound feed costs even more.

5. Seedling prices rise

As more people raise crayfish and the market becomes better, the seedlings become more expensive. Some people say that crayfish can be allowed to reproduce on their own. The disadvantage of this is that most of them will be inbred, and the shrimp seedlings will have many diseases and small sizes, so they will not sell well. Of course, you can also buy broodstock yourself and raise shrimp seedlings, but this still requires the money to buy broodstock, as well as the labor cost of reproduction, feeding costs, etc.

6. Food is expensive

China's economy has developed, people's living standards have improved, prices have risen, and labor costs have also risen. Therefore, the price of the crayfish you eat must be added with employee wages, seasoning fees, rent, water and electricity, etc., so the price is expensive. There is a subtle relationship between consumer goods, and the logic behind the price increase is always reasonable.

Of course, there is also some market speculation behind the price increase.

In short, the rise in crayfish prices is caused by a combination of factors. But who can stop a foodie from eating? Haha, Chinese people love to eat, it's their nature.

Because there are fewer and fewer crayfish, but more and more people are eating them. Since the supply cannot meet the demand, the price will definitely get higher and higher. This is a very normal thing.

Because nowadays crayfish are artificially cultivated, the labor cost and breeding cost are very high, it takes a lot of time and money, so crayfish are becoming more and more expensive.

Crayfish are expensive because one person can easily eat two kilograms!

Don't even think about eating out, cook it yourself.

I bought five catties of it, and the good ones cost 35 yuan per catty, which is nearly 200 yuan. The ingredients! If you add all the ingredients together, it will cost you 200 to 300 yuan to make a portion at home. It is not too much to buy it at a restaurant for 400 to 500 yuan.

Think about it, a serving of dry-pot cabbage costs no more than 10 yuan to make at home, and 20 yuan in a restaurant is already very reasonable. Then look at crayfish, how expensive do you think it is?

I think the price has increased because of the increasing demand, which has led to a shortage of supply in the market. In the past two years, crayfish has become more and more popular, and more people are eating it, but the production of crayfish is limited.

The purchase price of crayfish is less than 10 yuan per catty, so why is it so expensive to eat crayfish in the city?

Today, shrimp farmers are also facing this difficulty. When the price of crayfish is good, the price they give to dealers can be up to 10 or 20 yuan, so at that time the terminal retail price is above 30 yuan, and the price in restaurants is even higher, mostly around 40-50 yuan. As for consumers, they have already accepted these prices and have become insensitive, but for middlemen, they are very sensitive to prices because they need to make a profit difference from shrimp farmers. Therefore, when the supply and demand of crayfish is in excess now, the factory wholesale price of shrimp farmers has been suppressed by middlemen.

Most of the smaller crayfish sold by some shrimp farmers are now priced at around 6-7 yuan. I bought a crayfish from a shrimp farmer in my village last week for only 10 yuan, but it should be around 15 yuan per catty on the market. If it were sold on the market last year, the price of crayfish of the same size would definitely be within 25-30 yuan. This is to allow middlemen to earn more price differences and profits. Because there are currently a lot of crayfish on sale, but the market crayfish trade is still unpopular. Under these circumstances, crayfish sellers, buyers and restaurant owners raise the price of crayfish several times and finally pass it on to consumers.

Because the trading terminal is not lacking in the lobster consumption market, but for crayfish farms, since this is also the time when lobsters are sold in large quantities, the sellers also take this opportunity to bargain, so as to achieve higher profit margins. If the breeders do not sell at this time, the breeding cost is still increasing, and they have to sell at a very low price. The crayfish coming out of the pond are first sold to shrimp vendors, who then sell them to the market wholesalers, who then deliver them to restaurants, and the restaurants then process them through gourmet food. The price will definitely increase layer by layer, so it is normal that the lobster food you cultivate early is expensive! Crayfish is rich in magnesium.

Magnesium plays an important role in regulating cardiovascular activity and can protect the endocrine system very well. It can reduce blood cholesterol and prevent myocardial infarction. At the same time, it can also expand the coronary artery and help prevent hypertension and myocardial infarction. Scarcity makes things valuable. At present, the number of crayfish consumed in China is huge, and the demand for crayfish is very high. The logistics cost is high. Hubei, China, is China's crayfish paradise. The main production areas are in this area, and the logistics cost of transporting to various parts of the country is relatively high.

The main reason is that they need to consider their own costs, and the production process is also very labor-intensive, so the price will naturally increase.

This is mainly because there are many intermediate links from acquisition to sales, which will result in many price differences.

This is because when farmers go to the city, they need a middleman who will process the crayfish again and sell them at a higher price.