After the beginning of summer, the temperature rises in various places, and seasonal fruits such as cherries and watermelons are in the season when a large number of them are on the market, what is the price of fruits this year?
In Beijing's Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, fruit merchants told reporters that after the May Day holiday, a large number of watermelons in Shandong, Jiangsu, Beijing and other places were listed, and the price was lower, and the average price of watermelons in Xinfadi Market on May 9 was 4.82 yuan per kilogram, down 20% from April 29 and 33% from April 9, while varieties with higher prices in the early stage have also dropped significantly recently.
Ma Jing, a fruit merchant in Beijing's Xinfadi Market: Cherries from Dalian, Liaoning Province, and cherries from Shandong are on the market in large quantities, last month 60 yuan a catty, now 40 yuan a catty.
Xu Jingju, a fruit merchant in Beijing's Xinfadi Market: The original price was high, but now it is going down, and lychees have just started at more than 200 yuan a box, and now they have dropped to more than 70 yuan a box.
Data show that in April, the average wholesale price of the six fruits monitored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was 7.9 yuan per kilogram, up 0.3% month-on-month and 10.5% year-on-year. After May, as the weather warms up, watermelons, melons, cherries, strawberries, mulberries and other seasonal fresh fruits from northern and central China production areas have entered the harvest period, and the supply and variety of fruits in the fruit market have increased.
Wang Yunjuan, chief fruit analyst of the agricultural product market early warning team of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Since May, the average wholesale price of fruits in the country has decreased slightly, mainly due to the large number of melon fruits such as watermelons, of which the weekly average price of watermelons fell by 6%, down 25% year-on-year, and it is expected that fruit prices will enter a seasonal decline channel in the later period.
Source: CCTV Finance