The price of peppers and green onions has increased significantly. What is the main reason?

According to reports, the seasonal fluctuation of vegetable prices is obvious. From June 1 1 to the following Spring Festival, vegetable prices are prone to seasonal increase due to the increase in production and harvest costs of overwintering anti-season facilities and holiday consumption. Recently, the price of vegetables has increased greatly, mainly due to the adverse effects of the nationwide cold wave and low temperature weather at the end of last year and the beginning of this year on the production and circulation of vegetables, and the sporadic epidemic situation in some areas recently has affected the transportation and distribution of vegetables to some extent.

Henan Shangqiu Agricultural Products Center Wholesale Market is the largest agricultural products trading center in the border area of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and it is the weather vane of local agricultural products prices. At present, the price of peppers in this area is relatively high. Green onions used to cost four or five yuan a catty, but now they have all risen to seven or eight yuan.

Vegetable wholesalers said that the relatively high purchase price of vegetables this year, coupled with the increase in transportation costs in cold weather, led to an increase in wholesale prices. In addition, the Spring Festival is approaching, which will also affect the price of vegetables.

Due to the weather, vegetable planting was once affected this year, resulting in a decrease in the output of some vegetables; As the Spring Festival approaches, consumption peaks, vegetable supply is tight, and prices are rising.

Is the price of green onion higher or because of its growth? A little hard? . Heavy rain in the south and frost in the north, and the harvest of farmers planting green onions in 2020 is also hard-won. Ma Xingmin, president of Shandong Zhangqiu Xingmin Green Onion Professional Cooperative, told China Business Daily that the green onions in the southern producing areas were partially flooded and the output declined; However, due to the low price of green onions in the northern producing areas in previous years, many growers abandoned their seeds and the planting area in the northern producing areas also decreased. The green onion growers who have been harvested in 2020 have also earned 10,000 yuan.

Insufficient supply is also one of the reasons for pushing up the price of green onions. Chen Junming, executive vice president of China Vegetable Circulation Association, told China Business Daily. Green onions can't be refrigerated, so they can't be hoarded or stored for a long time. Onions began to rise from September to June in 2020. Only after the price rises, the growers in the producing areas can be stimulated by high prices to expand the planting area, the relationship between market supply and demand can be eased, and the price can be lowered. ?

The reason for the higher price of pepper is also the decrease in supply. Yu Shuangshuang, an analyst of Shanghai Steel Union-My Agricultural Products Network, a commodity analysis institution, told China Business Daily. Since the winter of this year, the price of fresh pepper has risen, mainly because the southern fresh pepper was affected by rain at the seedling stage, which obviously reduced production and lost money. The market supply mainly depends on the northern greenhouse pepper, the market volume is reduced, and the price is rising. However, with the recent listing of Hainan fresh pepper, the market supply has increased and the price has also decreased. ? With the approach of the Spring Festival, the prices of all kinds of vegetable products are rising. Why do vegetables always increase in price before the festival? ? On the one hand, the demand for vegetables increased before the Spring Festival. On the other hand, around the Spring Festival, vegetables in the market mainly rely on greenhouse vegetables, and the production cost is higher than that of ordinary vegetables. After the Spring Festival, winter and spring vegetables grown in non-greenhouse will be listed one after another, and the price will drop in April.

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