Why are vegetables more expensive than meat?
If you go to the supermarket to buy food recently, you will find that the prices of many vegetables have soared. "I used to be a vegetarian every day because pork was expensive. Now I buy pork casually, but the price of vegetables is rising. " Some residents said this.
A catty of spinach 15 yuan, fast-growing vegetable seedlings 13 yuan, broccoli 10 yuan, a catty of fennel and eggplant 9 yuan, and a catty of green garlic and cucumber 8 yuan. This is the price tag of a food stall in a vegetable market in Xicheng District, Beijing recently.
"There was a lot of rain before, and the dishes couldn't get in, which led to the price increase of many dishes." The vegetable vendor explained: "Although the price of vegetables has gone up, we still have to eat. This kind of small spinach can sell two big bags a day. "
"Now the price of vegetables is indeed higher than before, mainly because it is expensive when purchasing goods." The supermarket staff said.
According to the monitoring of the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Market Price Information System" of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the wholesale price of pork is 10 to 15 to 10 22, and it is RMB 9.73 per kilogram.
Nationally, the average price of vegetables in 286 wholesale markets 19 was 4.87 yuan/kg, up 1 1.6% from last week and up 27.4% year-on-year. Among them, the prices of cauliflower, eggplant, spinach, beans and celery increased by 26.9%, 20.3%, 17.5%, 16.8% and 16.7% respectively.
Recently, vegetable prices have skyrocketed, mainly due to rainfall and low temperature. The rainfall in autumn this year is obviously more than normal, especially after the end of September, it continued to rain in the north and the temperature dropped rapidly. Many vegetable fields in northern vegetable producing areas such as Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi and Shaanxi were flooded due to long-term continuous rainfall. , which makes it difficult to harvest vegetables and greatly increases the acquisition cost. Since June 65438+ 10, the market volume of fresh and tender vegetables has obviously decreased, and the average price of some varieties has risen sharply in June 65438+ 10, and the overall vegetable price has also jumped.
In addition, the recent increase in vegetable prices is obviously related to the sudden drop in temperature. Low temperature will prolong the growth cycle of vegetables, and vegetables will be affected to varying degrees (freezing to death). The supply of many vegetables of origin is decreasing, the supply exceeds demand and the price is rising.
When will the price of vegetables be normal?
For the future trend of vegetable prices, Zhang Jing, chief analyst of the vegetable market analysis and early warning group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, predicted that "vegetable prices may continue to rise in the later period, especially the prices of some varieties in the disaster-stricken areas may remain at a high level for some time. After the vegetables to be postponed are listed, the price of vegetables may fall back to the average level in the same period of the year. "