Why do vegetable prices jump recently
2021-10-25
Recently, consumers who often buy vegetables will feel that the price of vegetables is obviously expensive. "Since the National Day holiday, the national vegetable prices have jumped significantly." recently, Zhang Jing, chief analyst of the vegetable market analysis and early warning team of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, told the economic daily. According to the statistics of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, in October (to 18th), the national average wholesale price of 28 kinds of vegetables under key monitoring was 4.87 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 8.7% over the end of September and 16.8% over the same period in recent three years. Among them, the average prices of cucumber, zucchini, white radish and spinach increased by 65.5%, 36.3%, 30.7% and 26.5% respectively compared with the previous month. Relatively speaking, the prices of durable storage and transportation vegetables remained stable. According to the laws of previous years, as the weather turns cool, the main vegetable producing areas in the north, such as Shouguang, Shandong and Zhangjiakou, Hebei, gradually enter the closing period, and the output decreases. However, a large number of local vegetables are listed, the scale of transporting North vegetables to the South is further reduced, and the transportation and preservation costs are reduced. Therefore, the average price of vegetables in the country usually shows a slight downward trend. Why did vegetable prices jump abnormally this year? Zhang Jing said that the recent abnormal jump in vegetable prices was mainly affected by rainfall and low temperature. The rainfall in this autumn is obviously more than that in the whole year. Especially after late September, there is a large-scale continuous rainfall in the north, and the temperature drops rapidly. Affected by large-scale and long-term continuous rainfall, many vegetable fields in northern vegetable producing areas such as Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi and Shaanxi have been flooded, it is difficult to harvest vegetables, and the acquisition cost has increased significantly. Since October, the market volume of fresh and tender vegetables has decreased significantly, the average price of some varieties rose sharply in October, and the overall vegetable price also jumped. A vegetable wholesaler in Beijing Xinfadi agricultural products wholesale market told reporters that from the end of September to the whole national day holiday, although the total rainfall in Beijing is not very large, the rainfall in the main vegetable producing areas in the North such as Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei and Shanxi is very large, and many vegetable fields are flooded. Vegetables planted in the open field used to be harvested mechanically, but now they can only be harvested manually due to ponding. For example, Yucheng, Dezhou, Shandong, is the main supply of celery in Beijing market in October. The purchased vehicles cannot reach the land due to the accumulated water in the fields, so they need to be transported out manually. The cost of vegetable harvesting and transportation increased significantly, and the price rose accordingly. "At this time in the past, broccoli sold in Beijing market mainly came from Langfang and Handan, Hebei. This year, Langfang and Handan broccoli were soaked in rain and could not meet the market demand in Beijing. Merchants purchased a large number of broccoli from Yinchuan, Ningxia. Now Xinfadi merchants buy more than a dozen containers of broccoli from Ningxia every day." Beijing Xinfadi agricultural products wholesale market statistics manager Liu Tong said. Spinach on the Beijing market mainly comes from Liaocheng, Shandong Province. Recently, due to the rain soaked and rotten in the ground, only a small amount of greenhouse spinach in Liaoning can be listed, so the price has risen sharply. The good news is that the prices of storage and transportation resistant varieties such as onion, potato, white gourd, pumpkin, radish, tomato, fungus, ginger and garlic remain basically stable. Vegetable prices jump under the influence of climate. Is the supply guaranteed in the later stage? Zhang Jing said that the adverse effects of rainy and low temperature on vegetable supply in autumn can be divided into immediate and delayed effects: the immediate effects are mainly the slowdown of vegetable growth and inconvenient harvesting, which can be recovered in a short time; The delayed impact is mainly the damage to the vegetables themselves, such as the damage to the roots and branches, which takes a long time to recover, and some even directly lose the market volume. Looking forward to the future, vegetable prices are generally on the high side this year, and growers have strong intention to expand their planting. The planting area of summer vegetables in the cold and cool areas of the North has increased year-on-year, and the supply of storage resistant vegetables is sufficient. At present, the area of field vegetables in China is about 100 million mu, which is flat and slightly increased year-on-year, and the supply of vegetables in autumn and winter is guaranteed. Liu Tong said that according to the normal law of the year, after the end of September, the vegetable supply land will move south. According to the feedback from the place of origin, the vegetables in the southern producing areas are growing well, most of the vegetables can be listed normally on schedule, and the connection of the transformation of vegetable supply places in summer and autumn is basically better than that in the same period last year. For the future trend of vegetable prices, Zhang Jing predicted that "vegetable prices may continue to rise in the later stage, especially the prices of some varieties in the affected areas may remain high for a period of time. After the delayed vegetables are listed, the vegetable prices may fall back to the average level in the same period of the year". (outlook new era)
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