On August 18, in Beijing Carrefour supermarket, the price of tomatoes on that day was 2.68 yuan per catty. Beijing News reporter Cao photo
The price of tomatoes has been falling in many parts of the country.
"The price has risen a little in the past two days, and it was cheap a few days ago." Wang Bo is a tomato purchaser in Fuyu County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. He told reporters that at this time last year, the local tomato purchase price was between 1.2 yuan and 1.7 yuan per catty. Prices have continued to fall this year, reaching a minimum of two cents to three cents per catty. In the past two days, the market has slightly improved, and the price has returned to 1.2 yuan per catty, but even so, for some local growers. "At this time in previous years, farmers started picking tomatoes at 3 am, and tomatoes were lucky to get to the market around 5 am. The tomatoes harvested by farmers at 6 o'clock this morning will still be left after being sold for a long time. " Wang Bo said that at present, compared with the surrounding areas, the sales of local tomatoes are relatively good, especially some tomatoes with good quality can still be sold, but it is difficult to sell tomatoes with average quality.
The reporter learned that the price of tomatoes in many places across the country has continued to fall recently. According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, among the 46 varieties monitored in the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market on August 16, the price of tomatoes dropped by 3.6% compared with the previous day.
On August 10, the barometer of vegetable prices in Beijing Xinfadi showed that the average price of tomatoes was 2.7 yuan per kilogram, down 18. 18% compared with the same period last week. On August 16, the average price of tomatoes was 2.4 yuan per kilogram, down 14.29% compared with the same period last week.
Zhao Shigang, the "king of tomatoes" in Xinfadi, told the Beijing News reporter that the wholesale price of tomatoes in Xinfadi market in Beijing also indicates that these two days are per catty 1.2 yuan, which is much cheaper than the same period last year.
The centralized listing of tomatoes in the region exceeds demand.
"At present, tomatoes in Hebei, Ningxia, Liaoning and other places are listed centrally, and the market supply exceeds demand, which leads to lower tomato prices." Zhao Shigang said.
Li Changbao, an expert in tomato research group of Vegetable Research Center of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, said that agricultural production has been in a dynamic state of ups and downs. At present, the tomato market is obviously refined, and the price of ordinary tomatoes is low, about per catty 1 yuan. However, fruit tomatoes still keep about ten yuan a catty.
"Compared with other vegetables, the income from planting tomatoes is higher, so the planting area will increase." However, in Li Changbao's view, the price of tomatoes continued to fall this year, not simply because of the area, but because of the influence of weather and other factors on regional centralized listing and domestic market circulation.
How to avoid "over-planting" vegetables?
Can vegetable planting be "warned" in advance to avoid blind expansion leading to high yield and no increase in income? Zhang Jing, chief analyst of the vegetable market analysis and early warning group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and associate researcher of the Institute of Agricultural Information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said, "We have been working hard to build such an early warning mechanism, and some major producing areas have also carried out fruitful information monitoring and early warning practices for key varieties and important periods. However, covering the whole industrial chain and monitoring and early warning in a wider scope still needs the joint efforts of many parties. However, among all agricultural and sideline products, the marketization degree of vegetable supply and demand adjustment is the highest. Nowadays, market regulation is also more effective, with many varieties of vegetables, more crops, obvious seasonal changes and changes in production areas. It is a particularly complex system, and the accuracy and timeliness of early warning are very challenging. At the same time, in the practice of information release and market expectation, because vegetable production is still dominated by small-scale farmers, people's understanding and decision-making of information are also very different. Therefore, we generally encourage bulk vegetables, such as vegetables with large supply or long cycle, to adjust the planting area, especially' small steps and slow walking', but we should also pay attention to market changes and weather conditions in time, do a good job in field management, and adjust the listing period and listing volume through technical means in production to avoid ups and downs. "
In view of the fact that the current reduction of tomato production affects farmers' income, Zhang Jing suggested harvesting tomatoes in batches according to market conditions, and paying attention to developing sales through online and offline channels. "The market demand for tomatoes is actually relatively large. The market was good in the first two years. There are relatively many kinds of plants this year, and the supply is very abundant. The price of a few cents a catty is only a phenomenon in some areas, mainly due to the delay in listing due to the weather in the early stage and the overlapping seasons of tomato listing. In addition, the quality of some producing areas decreased due to rainfall, so the price dropped significantly. It is expected that it will run at a low level for a while in the later period. "
Zhang Jing said that in 20021year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs began to comprehensively promote the construction of cold storage and preservation facilities for agricultural products, and selected the whole county for promotion and demonstration in batches, especially for fruits and vegetables that are relatively resistant to storage and transportation or can significantly extend the commodity period through pre-cooling after harvest. For them, the cold storage and fresh-keeping facilities in the producing area can help farmers avoid the low-price period of vegetables, adjust the favorable market period and ensure farmers' income.
"At present, China's vegetables are generally in a balanced supply situation. Therefore, although the price fluctuations of some varieties and some regions may be obvious, on the whole, the vegetable market has been very stable and the' vegetable basket' is guaranteed. "