On 25 April, a reporter from Modern Express visited Nanjing's fruit retail and wholesale market and learned that the market price of watermelons is generally four or five yuan a catty, some watermelons are sixty or seventy yuan each, and some brands of watermelons even cost hundreds of yuan.
In the current Nanjing fruit market, the round and green watermelon has attracted a lot of attention. In the farmers' market near Zhangfuyuan, watermelons are placed in front of many fruit stalls, with a small phoenix at 3.98 yuan a catty, Meidu seedless melon at 4.8 yuan a catty, and rock sugar unicorn melon at 5.5 yuan a catty......
Ms. Wu, a citizen, picked the freshly cut Meidu watermelon: "I only bought a quarter of it and spent 12 yuan." The stall owner said that now the watermelons have just been put on the market, and they are all foreign melons, and the cost of long-distance transportation is high and the price is also expensive. "Meidu melon and unicorn melon have recently increased the number of listings, and the price has dropped a little. At the beginning of April, it was sold for seven or eight yuan a catty, but now it has dropped to four or five yuan a catty. Due to the high price, most customers now buy half a watermelon. ”
The stall owner also recommended a small sugar pill watermelon from Guangdong, 8 yuan a catty, and a small watermelon is more than two catties. "Small sugar pill watermelon is a more popular new variety in recent years, and the same as the extra small phoenix, early on the market, thin skin, small size, if you think the unicorn melon is big, you can try this small watermelon. ”
In a chain supermarket, the cut Kirin cream watermelon, weighing more than 3 catties, came from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 29.9 yuan. If it is a whole melon, it generally weighs eight catties and costs 59.8 yuan. On the other hand, the 25.9 yuan milk watermelon from Weifang, Shandong Province also attracted many people to try it.
"Compared with the same period last year, the overall price of watermelon this year is stable and has risen slightly. Wang Rui, director of Nanjing Zhongcai Fruit Market Business Development Office, said. Wang Rui analyzed that this is because the quantity of early-maturing unicorn melons in March and April was relatively high when they were first put on the market. At present, it is a foreign watermelon that has just been listed, such as 8424 in Guangdong, seedless watermelon, unicorn melon in Hainan, Meidu watermelon in Yunnan, etc., and transportation costs and labor costs also make watermelons sell at a higher price. "As the weather gets hotter and hotter, more melon sheds are open for picking, and the more melons there are, especially after the watermelons around Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and other places are listed in May, when the watermelons will enter the peak sales season, and the price will gradually decrease. ”