Why are vegetables more expensive than meat?

Recently, the price of vegetables has soared, and spinach is more than ten yuan a catty. Let me talk about this phenomenon first.

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Why are vegetables more expensive than meat?

Recently, the price of vegetables has soared, and spinach is more than ten yuan a catty. Let me talk about this phenomenon first.

It is definitely abnormal that food is more expensive than meat, which at least goes against the cognition of China people, but it has been recognized since ancient times. There is a joke in history. During the Jin dynasty, there was a famine, and the people dug up grass roots to eat bark. Jin Huidi said, "Why don't you eat minced meat?" It means that ordinary people have no food, so why don't they eat meat? This reflects Hui Di's ignorance.

With the outbreak of productivity, vegetables are more expensive than meat in some developed countries because their natural environment is too good, and the cost of industrialized production of meat is relatively low, but it is only limited to the fact that some meat is cheaper than vegetables. But good meat is still expensive.

For us in China, at least at this stage, it has not reached the level of industrialized farming, and the natural environment is not comparable to others. Production of a catty of meat consumes more resources than production of a catty of vegetables, so it is definitely abnormal that vegetables are more expensive than meat in China.

However, the fact that vegetables are more expensive than meat does not mean that this phenomenon has occurred this year. This phenomenon has always existed, but it is not so common now. Last year's Chinese cabbage was ten yuan a catty. Do you remember? As for ginger and garlic, don't say it if you are cruel.

As we all know, the reason why vegetable prices are soaring now is because many vegetable planting bases have been affected, especially in Shandong and Henan.

Our present vegetable cultivation has formed the characteristics of China. Since the 1998 vegetable basket project started, vegetable planting has become more and more concentrated, and even the output of a certain vegetable in a county can supply more than half of the country. The effect of this mode of production is that the supply of vegetables in China has changed greatly compared with 20 years ago.

When I was a child, I also had the concept of storing vegetables in winter, such as storing some cabbage and radish, otherwise there would be no food in winter. Who stores vegetables in winter now? If you want to eat in winter, just buy it directly. At present, the annual output of vegetables in China is 700 million tons, and the per capita possession is more than 500 kilograms, ranking first in the world. 1400 million people, not easy. This is an achievement that needs to be affirmed.

There must be shortcomings, that is, what we see now, except for the increase in vegetable prices caused by freight, that is, there will be no problems in the vegetable base. For example, the disasters in Shouguang and Liaocheng, Shandong Province will affect the whole northern region, and now it feels like this. For another example, the price of onions is still stable at present. If Wuwei, Jinchang, Gansu Province is affected by the disaster, it is no problem to at least double the price of onions now. I know those places too well. Onions are everywhere.

Now that the reasons for the increase in vegetable prices have been finished, let's talk about how long this phenomenon will last. In fact, everyone knows the answer and it won't last long. Speaking of which, let me tell a joke first. Last year, when the price of pork was sky-high, I made a program to analyze the reasons for the rise of my second brother. I came to a conclusion that the price of pork would drop for a year at the most, but it would drop to the last low point, which means that it is unlikely that we would buy pork for seven or eight yuan a catty. It was a joke. This year's pork