<p>This year, the price for Chinese chestnuts all over the country is very high and greatly exceeds the price of last year. The main reason is that the production volume of chestnuts has decreased this year. The Chinese chestnut product is divided into small years and big years. In a small year, the production volume is low. That pushes up the price of the raw materials. Moreover, many Chinese chestnut production areas met with natural disasters this year. In the Hebei region in Shandong, for example, there was a drought. In Luotian in the Hubei, a flood occurred during the first stages of the chestnut growth, followed by a drought in the later periods. There was almost no harvest here as a result. Adding the extreme weather to the fact that 2016 is a small year, the price has soared up to great heights.<br></p>