It would have been the time when vegetables are green and yellow, coupled with weather anomalies, especially some time ago, the country ushered in a long period of cloudy and rainy weather in many places, rainfall is more, and this year, the cooling is relatively early, the weather is cold.

Rainfall and temperature, climate anomalies lead to unfavorable production of vegetables, resulting in a decline in production.

Particularly after the flooding, the vegetable production reduction will be more serious, the supply is reduced, the supply and demand tension, it will lead to the price of the upward trend.

That is to say, the weather is not good, abnormal weather is the culprit of vegetable price increases.

Secondly, production costs rise.

Another important reason is that the cost of production of vegetables is also rising, including the cost of seeds, fertilizers and labor are rising, in some cases by 30 percent.

Because global commodity prices have risen so far this year, many agricultural production materials are also increasing in price, especially fertilizer prices have risen more sharply.

Data show that the price of urea in the first half of the price per ton price of about 2,000 yuan, and recently have risen to more than 3,000 yuan.

And labor costs are also on the rise, before within 100 yuan per person per day, but now more than 100 yuan.

The rising costs are naturally reflected in vegetable prices.

Third, transportation costs are also rising.

On the one hand, many places suffered floods, vegetable wholesalers have to wholesale vegetables in various regions of the country, increasing the distance of transportation.

On the other hand, oil prices are rising. International crude oil prices have hit a new high in the New Year, and domestic oil prices have risen 14 consecutively so far this year. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that gasoline and diesel prices rose 23.4 percent and 25.7 percent respectively in September, with the rate of increase continuing to expand.

This has caused the transportation cost of vegetables to rise as well.

So, in the case of the superimposed impact of the above several factors, vegetables have seen a super-expected price increases.

For our vast number of retirees, what to do?

In fact, this year, the country has raised pensions, the overall rate of increase is 4.5%, 127 million retirees enjoy the pension increase, specific to each person, the rate of increase is not the same, the actual rise in the amount of money also varies, but each month can be more than a couple of hundred dollars, but it also helps to offset the impact of rising prices.

For urban and rural pensioners, 16 provinces have also raised their basic pensions for urban and rural residents this year, by up to 100 yuan.

For the needy, localities will also initiate the distribution of temporary price subsidies when price increases reach a certain level.

Of course, then again, pork is now cheaper, people still eat a little more pork.