As soon as the epidemic broke out, the price of vegetables went up? What social pain points have small vegetables touched us?

These days, because of the epidemic situation in Shanghai, buying vegetables, especially fresh vegetables, has become a hot topic in society. In fact, the most obvious problem brought by each epidemic is the lack of fresh vegetables and the rising price, which is not difficult to see the dependence of our people on fresh vegetables.

How much do people in China love vegetables? According to the data of FAO in 20 17, China's per capita vegetable consumption is 377. 17kg, ranking first in the world, 3.3 times that of the United States, 4 times that of Japan and India, and 5 times that of South Korea. According to the report of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 20 19, the total consumption of vegetables in China is 522.45 million tons, i.e. 1.04 kg per person per day.

Of course, this data includes the loss of transportation and production. In fact, the average person eats about 0.34 kilograms of vegetables every day, which is already a terrible data. You know, the average daily consumption of vegetables in the United States, the most developed country in the world, is only about 0. 1 kg.

In our eyes, it is unhealthy not to eat fresh green leafy vegetables, which is the social common sense of China people. We can say anything, we can't do anything without vegetables. But now it is difficult to buy food in some areas. Is there any good solution?

Looking back at the beginning of the epidemic, some people put forward the marketization of masks. In recent days, it has also been suggested on the Internet that the marketization of vegetables can make vegetables rise to sky-high prices, which can solve the problem of vegetable supply in these areas. Boy, this theory sounds ridiculous to everyone, but it really conforms to the logic of market economy. The question is, is it logically feasible?

It is foreseeable that the marketization of vegetables and allowing the price of vegetables to rise will inevitably cause people's anger and dissatisfaction. So what should we do about scarce resources?

Under the epidemic situation, people can't move freely, but as buyers, they can't choose sellers freely. Even if there are more vegetables, the market itself will fail. The price of vegetables itself is not expensive. The reason why we buy food is because of the biggest cost, labor cost. The vegetable retail industry is a labor-intensive enterprise, and the vegetables in our wholesale market are simply worthless.

In 20 19, the national vegetable output was 721025600 tons. Even under the influence of the epidemic, China's vegetable output will reach 727 million tons in 2020, which shows that we have no pressure on supply. All this is due to the "vegetable basket project" proposed by 1988, which is a project to uniformly allocate vegetable supply in various regions.

Then why is the food expensive? Because the industrious labor force in China has started to increase its price, food is now more expensive than meat in many places. With the progress of society and the transfer payment of the country, it is impossible to have cheap labor, so we must be prepared to accept this reality.

At present, the reason why the price of vegetables in big cities can remain relatively low lies in the foresight of the vegetable basket project, which has lowered the planting cost of vegetables themselves and made the increase of most vegetables not too amazing. However, because the flow of labor force is restricted, the inevitable result is that prices will rise. To solve this problem, we can only rely on "visible hands to regulate".

At the moment of the epidemic, we can't think about the problems we face, let alone listen to the gossip on the Internet, but we must tread on thin ice and think carefully every step. We should believe that the development of things is the prospect of spiral rise, with difficulties and obstacles, but it will get better and better in the end.