CCTV News: According to the latest monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, since March, the price of vegetables across the country has shown a seasonal downward trend, but ginger and garlic have seen a significant upward trend. What is the specific market? Let's go to the wholesale market in Beijing to find out.
Every morning is the peak trading season of the Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market in Beijing. However, it is worth noting that compared with other categories, the ginger and garlic trading area does not have much foot traffic.
According to the merchants in Beijing Xinfadi Market, the price of a pound of ginger is now about 6 yuan, an increase of 40%, and the customer demand is not large. In the past, you could sell one truckload of goods a day, but now you can sell two truckloads of goods in three days.
Beijing buyers also said that in the past, they could pull 40 or 50 boxes a day, but now they can reduce it by half, only 20 or 30 boxes.
In addition to the price of ginger rising in April, garlic prices also experienced a wave of increases after the Chinese New Year. Merchant Huang Xinquan told reporters that the price of garlic in the Beijing market rose by more than one percent in March, mainly due to the large-scale low temperature, rain and snow in Henan and other major producing areas in late February, which caused the damage of garlic seedlings and the expected reduction of market production. Recently, with the recovery of garlic growth in the production area, the price has fallen slightly, but the increase over the same period last year is still more than 50%.
Anqiu, Shandong: The amount of ginger seeds has increased, and the supply in the production area is tight in stages
According to the monitoring data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, since late March, the price of ginger in the country has risen for four consecutive weeks. What are the reasons for the current round of ginger price increases? The reporter also rushed to the main ginger producing areas to conduct an investigation.
In Nanxizhuang Village, Anqiu City, Shandong Province, ginger growers are busy placing ginger seeds, fertilizing and covering the soil in the fields. According to reports, according to the current production of ginger at 5.6 yuan per catty, the planting benefit per mu can reach about 20,000 yuan.
Nearly a month is the busy period of ginger sowing, with the increase in the willingness of growers to expand planting, the amount of ginger seeds has also increased, and some ginger is used as ginger seeds, so that the supply of production areas has decreased.
The reporter learned that due to the tight supply of ginger production areas, some cold storage stores around the area are expected to be improved, and they have stepped up to purchase ginger into storage, which has also led to the price of ginger being pushed up.
Sun Jianbo, a ginger storage merchant in Anqiu City, Shandong Province, said that the price of ginger has been on the rise since February, and the amount of planting and harvesting in previous years has been smaller, and the inventory is less than in previous years.
Zhengzhou, Henan: Early garlic grows well and will be listed around the "May Day".
Ginger is being sown, and the new season of garlic is about to usher in the harvest, what is the current production situation in Henan and other major producing areas? What will be the trend of national garlic prices in the future?
Zhongmu County, Zhengzhou, Henan Province is the main garlic producing area, with a perennial planting area of more than 200,000 mu. There are about 60,000 acres of early-maturing garlic planted this year, which will be harvested and marketed around the "May Day".
According to the growers, in order to cope with several low-temperature rain and snow weather encountered last winter and this spring, the local agricultural and rural departments sent an agricultural technology guidance team to check the growth of garlic continuously and guide them to replenish water and fertilizer in time.
The reporter learned that the total output of garlic in Zhongmu County, Henan Province is more than 300,000 tons. After the early-maturing garlic is listed around the "May Day", the late-maturing garlic will also be on the market one after another.
According to the scheduling analysis of the expert team of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the adverse weather in the early stage had a limited impact on the main garlic producing areas in the country. In addition, due to the high price of garlic last year, growers expanded their planting. It is expected that the national garlic area will increase by about 10% this year, and the price of garlic may decline in the later period.
Source: CCTV