In a large supermarket in Tongzhou District, Beijing, the price of green onions has reached 4.69 yuan/kg, and if some green onion leaves are removed, it is 5.99 yuan/kg; And some packaged shallots cost 1 1.9 yuan, which is close to 6 yuan.
Zhang Jing, chief analyst of the vegetable market analysis and early warning team 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 that the wholesale price of green onions has reached the highest level in the past four years.
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Reasons for the high price of green onions
The reason why the price of green onions is so high is also because the northern region has the habit of storing green onions before winter, especially in Shandong, Hebei and Henan, where almost every household stores green onions, so the market demand for green onions is increasing at present. However, due to the decrease in the supply of green onions in the market, the price has also increased several times compared with last year. Mainly in Shandong and Henan regions of China, due to the floods in these two regions from June to July this year, many farmers who grow green onions have also encountered this situation.
The main reason for the price increase of green onions is the climatic factors this year. In 2020, floods occurred in many places in China. Even if the central and western regions are relatively dry year after year, the rain is very abundant this year.
Compared with last year, the planting area of green onions decreased overall this year, mainly because of the low price last year. I remember that the price of green onions fell to 0.4~0.5 yuan Jin last year, and there was a slow-moving market, so the enthusiasm of farmers to plant green onions weakened this year, and many growers gave up planting green onions, resulting in a decrease in planting area. This year, the planting area of green onions is small, and the supply in the market will also decrease, while the demand will not decrease, resulting in the price of green onions rising all the way.