The "vegetable basket" is a bit heavy. Merchants reduce stocking.
"A catty has risen to 12 yuan. I can buy 3 catties before this price is put aside!" In a community fruit and vegetable supermarket in Chaoyang District, Beijing, Ms. Xu, a nearby resident, wanted to buy some spinach for stir-frying, but she gave up after seeing the price tag.
A catty of long cucumber 7.9 yuan, a catty of lettuce 9.8 yuan, and a catty of oily wheat 9.5 yuan ... The reporter saw in this fruit and vegetable supermarket that the price of home-cooked vegetables has risen sharply, and compared with September, the "value" has basically doubled.
"Spinach is too expensive! The wholesale price exceeds 10 yuan a catty, and I didn't dare to get the goods in recent days. " Ms. Zeng, a salesperson in the supermarket, said that some vegetables were sold at high prices and no one bought them, which caused great losses, and all of them had reduced their stocking.
According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the prices of vegetables such as cucumber, spinach, white radish and cabbage all increased during the week from1October 8 to 15, with cucumber and spinach increasing by 28.2%, 2 1.3% and 42% respectively.
In addition, from the recent price trend chart of Beijing Xinfadi Market, after entering 10, vegetable prices showed a continuous upward trend, among which spinach and other green leafy vegetables rose rapidly.
"The purchase price has gone up, but the sales price can't go up, otherwise it won't be sold." In the wholesale market of agricultural products in Xinfadi, Mr. Zhang, a caterer who came to purchase spinach, said that the cost of vegetable prices mainly depends on internal digestion, and only by keeping prices relatively stable can customers be retained.
Wholesalers can't receive goods, and the income of growers is mostly the same as in previous years.
Not only are consumers' "food baskets" heavy, but for many vegetable wholesalers, the price of vegetables has risen since they collected vegetables in the fields.
In the wholesale market of agricultural products in Xinfadi, Mr. Xu, who has 7 years of experience in vegetable wholesale, said frankly, "Compared with the usual purchase price of one kilogram in 2 yuan, the purchase price of spinach has now risen to one kilogram in 6 yuan and has never been seen before."
Since the week of September 19, the weekly index of Shouguang vegetable price index, which is known as the barometer of vegetable price in China, has been rising for four weeks in a row, among which leafy vegetables and eggplant vegetables have increased greatly.
"Spinach production is limited, and even if the purchase price is raised, it will not be much." Mr. Xu said that it usually takes two days to collect a car, but now it takes at least three to four days.
Wang Chun is a first-class wholesaler of Shouguang Agricultural Products Logistics Park. He said that the purchase price of high-quality spinach ranged from 5 yuan to 8.5 yuan, while the purchase price in the same period last year was a kilo in 2 yuan. Even if it was multiplied several times, wholesalers were snapping it up. "The supply is too small, so take as much as you can."
The reporter learned that due to the continuous rainfall, the vegetable output of most growers is not as good as in previous years, but the vegetable price is higher. Overall, the income is the same as in previous years.
"In previous years, 40,000 to 50,000 kilograms of cucumbers could be produced from 5 mu of land. This year, due to the rainy weather, 20,000 kilograms of cucumbers were produced, but the selling price was more than doubled, and the overall income was the same as last year." Zhao Yuqian, a cucumber grower in Shouguang, said.
Seasonality, rain and other multiple factors lead to the increase in vegetable prices.
According to the analysis of the insiders, at present, at the time of "green and yellow", the listing of vegetables in summer has basically ended, and a small number of vegetables have been listed in autumn and winter. Coupled with the rapid cooling and heavy rain this year, the growth of vegetables in major producing areas has been slow, and the production of vegetables in some areas has been reduced after being flooded by rain, and the market supply has decreased, resulting in a significant increase in vegetable prices.
He Xiaojie, a vegetable price analyst at Shouguang Agricultural Products Logistics Park, said that as the weather gets colder, vegetables in the northern producing areas are steadily delisted, and the supply of tomatoes, organic cauliflower and other vegetables is tight, prompting prices to rise.
"Due to the continuous rainfall in the northern vegetable producing areas since the middle and late September, the vegetable productivity has not recovered. In some places, vegetables have been damaged by rotten roots and rotten hearts due to being soaked in rain, and the output has dropped significantly." He Xiaojie said.
Liu Tong, head of Beijing Xinfadi Market Statistics Department, analyzed that taking the spinach in Beijing market as an example, due to the continuous rainfall, the spinach produced in Liaocheng, Shandong Province was soaked, so it was impossible to arrange farmers to replant in time, and the supply could only be guaranteed by subsequent greenhouse production. However, it will take some time for the spinach produced in greenhouse to go on the market. At present, only a small amount of spinach in greenhouses in Liaoning and other places can be listed, and the supply has been greatly reduced, resulting in high vegetable prices.
In addition, since the beginning of this year, the prices of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides have risen, which has pushed up the cost of vegetable planting; Oil prices continued to rise. In September, gasoline and diesel prices rose by 23.4% and 25.7% respectively, which led to an increase in transportation costs and also boosted vegetable prices.
Vegetable prices are easy to rise but difficult to fall or boost 10 CPI rise.
Judging from the fundamentals of vegetable supply, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the area of vegetables in the field in China is about 1 100 million mu, which is flat and slightly increased year-on-year, which has a good support for maintaining the balance between supply and demand.
"With the recovery of vegetable production, some vegetables that have been delayed from listing are listed in a centralized manner, and the prices of some varieties may also fall. However, continuous rainfall has affected the planting of vegetables in autumn and winter in some places, and there may be poor connection of stubble. It is expected that the overall price of vegetables in winter will be high." Zhang Jing, an associate researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Information of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said.
He Xiaojie analyzed that the demand in the vegetable market is strong at present, such as customers from the north actively entering the market, and after the National Day, the school started, the unit started, and the demand for canteens increased. In addition, Shanxi and other places are affected by heavy rainfall, the self-supply capacity of vegetables is insufficient, the demand of buyers is enlarged, and the goods are smooth, and the price is easy to rise and difficult to fall in the short term.
Many vegetable wholesalers predict that as the weather clears, vegetable transportation will return to normal, and the price of vegetables will fall, but it is still higher than the normal price in previous years.
It is worth noting that the price of vegetables has risen rapidly since 10, or it will drive the food data of the national consumer price index (CPI) to rebound. Maintaining stable supply and demand and stable prices in the consumer market is under certain pressure.
In order to increase the supply of vegetables to Beijing market and stabilize the price of vegetables, Beijing Xinfadi Market organized 3 million mu of self-owned planting bases and merchants nationwide to increase the deployment of vegetables to Beijing and develop new sources of goods.