The External Environment Is The Main Reason For Fur Market Cooling.

Fur market to cool down exports, reduce mink prices are cut down hard to protect capital

After several years of "rolling up" craziness, this year's

Begin to cool down.

Reporters visited the fur shop in the island city and found that compared with previous years, business is rather bleak this year.

Affected by this, mink breeding industry has also been affected.

Many farmers also said that with the sharp decline in marten prices, farmers are difficult to maintain capital.

"This year has really fallen into the cold winter."

On the afternoon of December 23rd, the clerk of the fur store in a mall in Hongkong said helplessly.

According to her introduction, compared to previous years, fur sales this year have been very sluggish. "Before, after December, especially before Christmas and new year's day, there were a lot of people who came to buy fur."

Not only that, but on the morning of 25, reporters in Jimo clothing wholesale market visit also found that the fur shop rare guests patronize.

A salesperson introduced: "our shop has a fur price of nearly two thousand yuan cheaper than in previous years, but sales volume is not as good as last year."

A person in charge of the Jimo clothing wholesale market Merchants Association said that according to his statistics, the sales of fur industry decreased this year, and with the increase of the cost of labor and rental, the profit decreased by 20% overall.

Fur industry downturn, as the industry upstream

Also encountered the "cold winter".

In the past year, a white male mink's skin can be sold for 460 yuan, while a White Mink's skin can sell for about 340 yuan. "But this year, the fur of the white male marten is only 240 yuan up and down, and the white female marten mink is only 140 yuan up and down, and the price has fallen by more than half."

Sun Jiaqun said.

During the interview, farmers also revealed that apart from labor, utilities and equipment depreciation, the cost of raising a mink in a year is about 130 yuan. "White Mink can barely keep the money, but this year the price of Black Mink is around 100 yuan, so basically it is money losing."

Farmers said.

Visit

Save half of seed and increase competitiveness

On the afternoon of December 25th, the reporter came to the traditional mink farming community in Xiaozhuang village, the Red Island street in the hi tech Zone. The farmer Sun Jiaqun originally had two courtyards to raise mink, but the northern side courtyard's breeding shed was empty, and the south side's breeding shed was not raised.

Sun Jiaqun told reporters that this year's market is sluggish.

He worked hard for a year, and he didn't earn much money. After considering the difficulty of changing the market next year, he deliberately reduced the number of mink.

"Last year, there were 1100 female mink and 200 male marten as mink species. In the first half of 2014, these mink breeds more than 5000 mink, but at the end of August and early September this year, mink entered the mature period to sell skin, but the price would not be so low.

This year I only kept 460 female mink and 120 male mink as a mink.

Sun Jiaqun said.

Sun Jiaqun also said that the price of fur was low this year, but feed had risen sharply in a period of time. "Taking the feed such as chicken head and chicken bone, the average price is 1.2 yuan a Jin, but this time it has risen to 2.4 yuan a kilogram this year, and the price of corn and fish steak has also risen."

Sun Jiaqun calculated an account. He found that the feeding cost of a mink was increased from 6 to 9 cents a day.

"One day a mink costs 3 cents more, and the 5000 mink is one thousand yuan.

The market is bad, forcing us to do nothing, we have to reduce the number of farms. "

Sun Jiaqun said.

"Not only our family, but more than 80% of our farmers are planting seeds this year by half."

Sun Jiaqun revealed.

"Of course, seed reduction is on the one hand, and many farmers have also replaced varieties this year to improve their market competitiveness."

Sun Jiaqun said he bought a group of Danish velvet marten this year. The mink is very thick and looks brighter. It is believed that it can enhance the quality of fur and make it more competitive.

During the interview, farmers analyzed that this year's mink farming industry downturn was partly due to the domestic fur market downturn, and the poor sales link directly hit the aquaculture industry, which caused farmers to suffer losses.

In addition, farmers believe that this year will be present.

The bleak situation is directly related to the external environment, and export reduction is one of the main reasons for the fall in prices.

Farmers said that more than 80% of the mink products and semi-finished products were exported to Russia, Ukraine and other countries, but this year's Russian economic situation is not good, especially the ruble has seen a significant depreciation, which also directly affects the export of mink skins this year.

"In addition, the United States and other western countries impose economic sanctions against Russia, and many buyers can not trade with Russian customers through banks, so the goods in their hands are hard to sell, which also increases the impact on mink breeding industry."

Farmers said.