Workers are unloading. Photo by ningboon secondary production logistics centre
Chinese journalist sun jia li, correspondent zheng yong and dong dan dan
"the price of vegetables rises to `over-year' and cucumbers in supermarkets cost $8 per pound." during this period, a number of citizens reflected in social media a marked increase in some vegetable prices. What are the prices of vegetables in the ningbo market today
On 29 august, journalists learned from the ningbo wholesale market under the ningbo by-product logistics centre that, beginning last weekend, prices of dozens of vegetables in the market began to fall. In mid-september, prices are expected to stabilize gradually after short-term shocks and seasonal impacts recede。
The workers are loading
Why did the prices of vegetables go up the other day? The manager of the ministry of wholesale and business development has shown that the increase in the price of vegetables is associated with heavy rains and high temperatures in the previous “fruit” production, as well as with increased transport and storage costs。
“most of the vegetables supplied in ningbo market are `summers' in the highlands, i. E. `fruits' from yunnan, gansu, ningxia, etc., representing about 80 per cent. During the preceding period, some of the production sites were affected by the alternation of temperature and rain, and vegetable production declined.”。
The persistence of high temperatures has also made preservation of vegetables more difficult, the cost of conservation during long-distance transport has risen, storage costs have increased and vegetable prices have been boosted。
Vegetable reserves in wholesale markets
Statistics from 29 august show that wholesale prices for the 29 vegetable varieties monitored by the market focus averaged $7. 2 per kilogram, a decline of 5 per cent compared with the same period last week, and have begun to fall。
At 11 p. M., zai jie, a highland vegetable operator, is taking stock: “the price of vegetables has fallen considerably, and the wholesale price of vegetables is now around $3 per pound and the wholesale price of cabbage is $1. 8 per pound. I can sell about 40 tons of vegetables a day these two days."
It is clear that local vegetable supplies are starting to rise as temperatures decline, that autumn vegetables will gradually be on the market in mid-september and that the source of “fruit” to ningbo will increase. Vegetable prices are expected to fall back to normal levels in mid-september。
Workers are moving
“we supply wholesalers' local vegetables at a price that has dropped to $3. 5 per pound. At the beginning of august, the price was as high as $10 per pound because of the lack of acre production.” zheng yunhi, head of the pilot demonstration yard for the prosperity of guacamole and vegetables in the streets of the town, said:。
This summer, ningbo experienced continued high temperatures and low rainfall, limiting the growth of green vegetables. After a gradual decline in temperature over the past few days, the production of acres from shanghai and suzhou in the zheng yunxi base shed rose from 250 kg at the beginning of the month to over 500 kg today。
Zheng eun-hye told journalists that the wholesale price of the base vegetables was expected to fall around $3 per kilogram in late september。
Fresh vegetables just arrived
In order to guarantee citizens' “baskets”, the ningbo wholesale market for vegetables has implemented real-time monitoring of the prices of priority varieties of vegetables and has strengthened its vegetable reserves by connecting 18 vegetable supply bases and agricultural products throughout the country。
