Recently, vegetable prices can be described as a succession of big rises, many parts of the country have felt the breath of the big rise in food prices, and spinach a catty rose to 15 yuan, Chrysanthemum 11 yuan, many people lamented that the price of vegetables is more expensive than pork.

But compared to the first 2 days of high prices, the recent vegetable prices began to fall. Such as the author's hometown, spinach has fallen to 8 yuan / catty, cabbage 4.5 yuan / catty, fennel 9.8 yuan / catty, garlic 7.8 yuan / catty, Romaine lettuce 6 yuan / catty, rape 5.5 yuan / catty, cucumber 5 yuan / catty, cabbage moss 5.5 yuan / catty.

Of course, this price is still high compared to previous years, just than a few days ago fell about 1-3 yuan / catty, of which spinach fell the most. As for why the market began to fall, in fact, also because vegetables are not like other agricultural products production cycle is long, now the southern vegetables have been listed one after another, and the northern greenhouse vegetables are also entering the market, thus making the market retail prices followed the decline.

However, in the short term, the price of vegetables will remain high upward trend, after all, the northern producing areas to reduce production more, Shandong, Hebei, production has been reduced by 40-60% or so, a moment of supply can not be restored to the past. Coupled with low temperatures, the upcoming winter, and at this time the cost of vegetable production is also increasing, vegetable prices ushered in seasonal high.

02, meat food prices rose collectively

However, vegetable prices began to have a downward trend, the market price of meat food is in the successive high, which is what happened?

1, pork prices

In early October, many supermarkets in order to attract people to come to spend, have pork promotions, Xuchang, Henan, there is a supermarket 3.98 yuan pork on the hot search. And other places, although not so low, but fell to 6-7 yuan a lot, many people lamented that pork is cheaper than vegetables, and then also began to actively buy. Some netizens even lamented that since the price of vegetables has risen, eat red meat every day.

However, with the rise in consumer demand for pork, its price has also begun to rise. Such as Jinhua, a netizen said, a week ago pork was only 10.8 yuan, then felt cheap to buy 5 pounds. But who knows today and then go to see, meat prices have risen to 14.58 yuan, five-flake meat is 15.98 yuan a catty. The salesman told him that the end of the year or to rise to about 20 yuan.

Dalian, a netizen said, the market pork rose 5 yuan a day, the day before buying is 10 yuan a catty, but the next day to go is 15 yuan a catty, and today the five-flower meat is up to 17 yuan a catty.

Suzhou Suining a netizen to share: the current pork rose relatively quickly, it is only a few days, before and after the leg meat rose to 15.8 yuan a catty, the five-flower meat rose to 17.8 yuan a catty, elbow 19 yuan a catty, pig intestines 35 yuan a catty, and even apples have risen to 12 yuan a catty.

2, egg prices

October's egg market has also experienced from the trough to brilliant, the author's hometown of a chicken farmer, said the beginning of October, the egg price all the way down, directly to 3.9 yuan / kg or so, thought the egg price to fall below the cost of price, but did not think that since the vegetable price is high, the origin of the market all the way to the "high light! ", the average price has risen to 5.1 yuan / catty.

The author checked and found that this is true. Receiving price from the origin, Henan for 5.08-5.13 yuan / catty, Shandong for 5.11-5.25 yuan / catty, Jiangsu for 5.17-5.35 yuan / catty, Anhui for 5.17-5.27 yuan / catty, Hebei for 5.05-5.33 yuan / catty, Beijing for 5.44-5.53 yuan / catty, Guangzhou for 5.3-5.4 yuan / catty.

The wholesale price is so high, not to mention the market retail price, a netizen in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, said the egg price in October experienced three price increases, first 4.68 yuan / catty, followed by 5.28 yuan / catty, and now rose to 5.88 yuan / catty, which is simply can not afford to eat. Beijing, a netizen complained that the local eggs have risen to 6.58 yuan / catty. But Shanghai is not low, a week ago for 4.99 yuan, now directly up 1 yuan, or 5.99 yuan / catty.

Egg prices higher, to put it bluntly, is to buy more people, after all, than the high price of vegetables, meat prices, eggs have undoubtedly become the best alternative, and its sales have begun to increase.

3, beef and mutton also with the rise

With the cold weather, beef and mutton sales also began to increase, so its corresponding prices also began a wave of increases. Such as Dalian, a netizen said, the local lamb for 40 yuan / kg, lamb loin for 42 yuan / kg, compared to last week rose 2 yuan a catty; beef bones for 36 yuan / kg, beef tenderloin for 43 yuan / kg, steak meat for 40 yuan / kg, the price rose 1-3 yuan / kg.

Jiangsu Yizheng a netizen said, the local food market beef and mutton is relatively cheap, lamb is only 33 yuan, beef 40 yuan a catty, cheaper than the supermarket about 3-5 yuan. Baoding, a netizen said the local beef 35 yuan a catty, mutton 37 yuan a catty.

Suzhou, a netizen said, the local black goat a catty of 60 yuan, white lamb for 50 yuan, it is too expensive; skinned beef for 43 yuan, pure lean meat for 48 yuan a catty, its price rose by about 5 yuan.

4, fish prices rose

In the first half of the year, the price of fish rose to the state of all people can not afford to eat, but from July onwards, the new fish are on the market one after another, the price of fish also began to decline. After September, the amount of new fish on the increase, fish prices returned to the level of previous years, but because of the high cost of farming, some fish farmers into a loss.

However, starting in mid-October, fish prices in the market rose again as sales went up. For example, Qingjiang fish and bream rose from 8 yuan to 12 yuan, grass carp and carp rose from 7 yuan to 9 yuan a catty, crucian carp was 12 yuan a catty, and chub was 8 yuan a catty.

Along with the collective high prices of meat and food on the market, many people lamented, is it again to be unable to afford to eat? In fact, we do not need to worry, this rise by the vegetable prices implicated due to, with the gradual decline in food prices, that the market is bound to restore calm again.