Durian Season Might Be Ending Soon So Buy Your Durians Fastly Now

I know: fastly isn’t a grammatically accepted word.

But I need to use it to emphasize how fast you need to be for your durian spree, because here’s the bad news: the durian season might be ending in seven to ten days, and that means the prices of durian are going to revert to its original price.

Here’s why.

Durian Season

Lest you’re someone so innocent that you thought that durians are grown by Uncle Joe from the nearby wet market, you need to understand this: we Singaporeans primarily import our durians from Malaysia.

Usually, there’s a major durian season from June to August, in which the supply of durians would increase so much that prices would drop drastically. While durians are still being harvested on other months, these are the months that you’d see the trend of durian everything, as the costs are considerably lower.

So, last month, you should’ve read many articles about cheap durian.

And now, this is ending soon.

In fact, sooner than expected.

Peak of Mid-Year Durian Season Over Soon

According to the folks at Penang Agriculture Department, they predicted that within ten days, all the durians would have fallen, which means there won’t be additional fresh durians coming our way.

They said, “Most of the cloned durians have all dropped and only D15 is still ripening on the trees.”

Now, don’t be shocked by the word “cloned”:  they’re not durians made from leather that’s coloured in yellow.  It just refers to the different types of durians.

Any durians that are still going to drop after that might be of lower quality, as the trees are now preparing for the next season and therefore not “feeding” the remaining durians.

And this year could be the shortest mid-year durian season so far, according to agriculture officer Ahmad Razali Abdul Razak from Penang.

He said, “Last year was one of the longest. Even as one side of the trees were still bearing fruits, the other side began flowering…Last year’s fruiting seasons did not seem to have a break between the middle and end of the year.”

And now? It’s only July.

Durian vendors there also agreed. One of the vendors usually load their durians into six lorries (you would be able to spot those big lorries ferrying durians early in the morning in Singapore), but now, he’s starting to load them only in one lorry.

So if you’re still having a durian urge, it’s time to stuff yourself with as many durians as possible now.

If not, your wallet’s going to burn.