Recently, there has been a phenomenon that "vegetables are more expensive than meat" in many places in China. In the same supermarket, one kilogram of spinach can buy two kilograms of pork or three kilograms of chicken, which has also become the focus of many netizens. It is understood that in recent years, the prices of vegetables that are not resistant to storage and transportation have been rising all the way, including spinach, coriander, cabbage, oily wheat, chrysanthemum, celery and broccoli.
Starting from 10 at the beginning of October, the wholesale prices of spinach in Beijing Xinfadi and Shanghai Jiangqiao agricultural wholesale markets have reached 10 yuan per catty, while lettuce, chrysanthemum and celery have reached 18 yuan, 16 yuan and 8 yuan per catty. The recent high vegetable prices have troubled many people.
Why are vegetables more expensive than meat?
Mainly related to these four reasons!
1. Vegetables are more expensive than meat.
Reason one: the supply of vegetables is slow.
Due to the continuous rainy weather in the early stage, many major producing areas suffered from waterlogging, which led to a decrease in output, inconvenience in picking, an increase in transportation costs and a general increase in terminal prices. On the other hand, since June 5438+ 10 this year, pork prices have been falling continuously. In the second week of June 5438+ 10, the average price of pork in bazaars was per catty 10.5 yuan, which was 60.8% lower than that in June 5438+ 10, and even lower than that in 8 yuan in many places.
2. vegetables are more expensive than meat.
Reason 2: seasonal weather effects.
Different from bulk agricultural products such as grain, fresh agricultural products such as vegetables have a high degree of marketization and frequent price fluctuations, so it is not an exaggeration to calculate by the day. Compared with large-scale breeding of pigs and broilers, vegetable production is easily affected by seasonal factors and extreme weather, and it is not surprising that the short-term supply reduction leads to price increase.
3. vegetables are more expensive than meat.
Reason three: caused by the law of price.
With the drop in the price of live pigs, the loss of pig farmers nationwide reached 76.7%. Behind the rise in the price of some vegetables is the short-term increase in production and circulation costs. There is no need to worry too much about this. High vegetable prices will increase the supply of vegetables, and low meat prices will crowd out the backward farming ability.
Vegetables are more expensive than meat.
Reason four: the price increase is different.
The increase of vegetables in different cities is different. Spinach can be bought in some cities 15 yuan, some cities/78 yuan and some cities/45 yuan.
This enlightens us that to ensure the supply and price stability of vegetables, we should pay close attention to the most common home-cooked dishes in people's lives, focusing on the cold season in large and medium-sized cities in the north.
Many people in China take it for granted that the price of vegetables is lower than that of meat.
In fact, in many developed countries, vegetables are usually more expensive than meat. In recent years, some vegetables in China are more expensive than meat at a certain time, and some high-end varieties are more expensive than meat all the year round.
Generally speaking, vegetables are more expensive than meat because of seasonality, and in the past 10 vegetables were more expensive than meat every year.