Aquatic plants still have a significant development space in the future, worth paying attention to.

Aquatic plants still have a significant development space in the future, worth paying attention to.

The heightened public awareness of environmental protection, the rapid development of urban and rural economic construction, the increased pressure on the cost of environmental greening, the high-standard positioning of human settlements, the heavy task of large-scale wetland restoration, all present excellent development opportunities for the aquatic plant industry.

Meanwhile, the outbreak of blue algae in Taihu Lake last year has urgently called for the fundamental improvement of the lake's environment and water quality.

The prospects for aquatic plants are promising, but a rush to the market can also lead to oversaturation. Taking lotus and water lilies as examples, there is a trend of blind imitation in the production of aquatic plants like these in the current market. Because cultivating lotus and water lilies can yield significantly higher economic benefits than farming grains, the aquatic plant market, driven by lotus and water lilies over the past five years, has seen continuous growth. This联动 effect in production has led to a rapid expansion of the cultivation area for lotus and other aquatic plants, a sharp increase in output, and structural surpluses have emerged in some easily propagated and abundant wild species.

Due to the dominance of supply and demand contradictions, the prices of aquatic plants like lotus flowers have begun to decline. On a macro level, both the total sales volume and total sales revenue continue to increase year by year, but the average income per unit area has not increased, particularly for farmers and enterprises, where profit growth is slow. Many producers of lotus flowers and aquatic plants are finding it increasingly difficult to proceed, and are reluctantly adjusting their product structures. Companies and large-scale producers that have long focused on lotus flowers and water lilies as their main breeding varieties have reduced their breeding quantities by 20% to 30%, switching to high-value-added species such as the market-recognized flower-leaf reed, flower-leaf bulrush, flower-leaf lilyturf, flower-leaf stone lilyturf, and reed.