However, this year is somewhat different. Many people find that the price of the "vegetable basket" has increased recently, especially the prices of vegetables and rice flour oil, which have increased even more. What's going on here?
1, meat price rises
When I went to the supermarket today, I found that the price of meat was obviously high, and even the price of pork was not significantly reduced.
Specifically, the pork belly price is 15.8 yuan/kg, and the front and rear leg meat is 13.8 yuan/kg, which is higher than that during the Spring Festival.
But in contrast, pork in many places in the north has dropped significantly.
For example, in a supermarket in Shijiazhuang, the price of pork dropped significantly: pork belly 10.9 yuan/kg, pork ribs 16.9 yuan/kg, pork liver 2.99 yuan/kg, pork rump 9.9 yuan/kg, pork in the front trough 9.9 yuan/kg, and bone in the front row 12.9 yuan/kg.
In Huhhot, pork belly and hind legs are 9 yuan/kg, front shoulder meat is 8.5 yuan's, and ribs are only 14 yuan.
In a market in Xi 'an, pork belly is only 8.5 yuan/Jin.
The price of eggs is not cheap either. Eggs in my hometown are generally 5.5-6 yuan/kg, which is a big increase compared with 3.9-4 yuan/kg in mid-February.
In a supermarket in Shijiazhuang, the price of eggs also rose to 5.69 yuan/kg; Shenyang eggs are also between 5 and 6 yuan.
Of course, the prices of beef, mutton and chicken are not cheap. For example, in my hometown, beef is generally 45 yuan/kg, goat meat is generally 50 yuan/kg, and mutton is 43 yuan/kg. The price of striped chicken also rose to 9.5- 10 yuan/kg.
Some netizens in Suzhou said that local beef rose to 55 yuan/kg, eggs rose to 20 yuan, mutton rose to 50 yuan/kg, and grass carp rose to 12 yuan/kg.
It can be seen that the current meat price has ushered in a wave of increase compared with the previous year, mainly because the traffic in many places is blocked, which leads to the inability of the meat from the producing area to enter the market, and the supply in the local market is less.
Therefore, in the producing area, the price of meat is relatively cheap, but the sales area is much more expensive.
If the price of pork is like this, the pork in the northern producing area has dropped to less than 10 yuan, but my hometown is still around 15 yuan.
2. The price of vegetables has soared.
Recently, the author found that vegetable prices began to rise quietly. For example, our leek rose to 7 yuan/kg, green pepper 5.99 yuan/kg, pepper 14.8 yuan/kg, rape 5.8 yuan/kg, spinach 6.3 yuan/kg, green onion 6.5 yuan/kg, celery 4.8 yuan/kg, cucumber 5.89 yuan/kg and broccoli 5.89 yuan/kg.
Obviously, as far as vegetables are concerned, their prices are higher than those in February in 2 yuan, and even potatoes have risen to 2.9 yuan/kg, and onions are 2.5 yuan/kg.
A netizen in Wuxi said that the local vegetable prices have also soared, with loofah 7.56 yuan/kg, lettuce 4.2 yuan/kg, peas 1 1.28 yuan/kg, big round pepper 4.68 yuan/kg, small green vegetables 4.8 yuan/kg, tomatoes 6.8 yuan/kg, small celery 3.8 yuan/kg and red amaranth.
In Shenyang, local residents also said that the price of vegetables is higher than before.
For example, Chinese cabbage 1.98 yuan/kg, Chinese cabbage 3.58 yuan/kg, oil-wheat vegetable 2.98 yuan/kg, cantaloupe 4.58 yuan/kg, tomato 3.98 yuan/kg, fresh mushroom 4.98 yuan/kg, water melon 3.98 yuan/kg and mushroom 4.98 yuan/kg.
From this point of view, vegetable prices have risen to varying degrees compared with February.
The increase in vegetable prices in my hometown is mainly due to the large number of buyers, which makes the supply of vegetables insufficient in the short term and drives the price up.
At the same time, the low temperature in the past few days and the slow growth of vegetables in greenhouses also reduced the amount of vegetables on the market. Vegetable farmers also have the mentality of the highest bidder, which leads to an increase in vegetable prices.
However, as the temperature rises, it is believed that the growth rate of vegetables will accelerate, and then the output will increase, which will drive the price of vegetables to usher in a new round of increase.
3. The surface oil is high.
Recently, affected by the blocked export of sunflower oil in Ukraine, the price of edible oil began to rise sharply. Soybean oil, palm oil and sunflower oil increased by 65.8% compared with last year, even stronger than the 50% increase of crude oil.
At present, the wholesale price of soybean oil in Xinfadi market has risen from 240 yuan/box to 270 yuan/box; In Zhengzhou wholesale market, 20 liters of soybean oil rose from 190 yuan to 220-225 yuan/barrel.
In addition to soybean oil, the prices of other oils have also increased. For example, a box of peanut oil rose to 370 yuan, a box of blended oil 240 yuan, and rapeseed oil was 275 yuan per box.
Ukraine's sunflower oil exports account for 80% of the world total. As a result, the prices of soybean oil and rapeseed oil are rising, and some countries have even issued palm oil export bans.
Of course, recently, many people found that the price of rice noodles began to rise, especially flour. A bag of 50 kg generally rose from 85 yuan to 105- 1 10 yuan.
A supermarket in Shijiazhuang, Wudeli flour per bag 103 yuan.
Flour has gone up so much because the price of wheat has risen to 1.6 yuan, whereas in previous years, it was only 1.25- 1.3 yuan per catty.
Due to the higher flour, the price of rice in the market has also increased, but the increase is not big.
Anyway, I believe that it won't be long before the soaring "vegetable basket" price will fall again. what do you think?