Mammoth News・Oriental Today Reporter Wang Lin/Wentu
Can you still afford to eat autumn spinach? Recently, a "green vegetable price generally rising, spinach 15 yuan a pound, higher than the price of pork in the same period" news rushed to the hot search, many netizens said "do not look do not know, a look frightened" "later or eat meat bar." So, what about the market in Zhengzhou vegetable market? The reporter visited the farmers' market, the vegetable wholesale department, and the supermarket.
"Spinach 12 yuan a pound, cucumber 6.5 yuan a pound" "with skin pork belly 10.8 yuan a pound, with skin hind legs 9.8 yuan a pound" October 12 at more than 10:00 a.m., the reporter first came to the farmers' market located in yanzhuang New District, Yingxie Road, visited a number of vegetable stalls and meat stalls, found that the price of green vegetables is indeed not cheaper than meat, many common green vegetable prices have been comparable to the price of pork, such as spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. And the more rare dishes, such as bitter chrysanthemum, toon, etc. are much higher than the price of meat, taking toon as an example, to two sales, one or two 4 yuan, combined to 40 yuan per catty.
Asked the reason, many stall owners said that the recent general price increase in green vegetables, mainly because of heavy rain, resulting in many greenhouses growing vegetables were flooded, "flooded vegetables are gone, can it not be expensive?" ”
"We were shocked when we entered the dish ourselves," a vegetable owner, Ms. Zhou (pseudonym), told reporters. Ms. Zhou said that her hometown is in Shangqiu Xiayi, and the local vegetable base has been submerged, and in Zhengzhou, the Maozhuang vegetable base, which is well known to the general public, has not been spared.
Take spinach as an example, according to Ms. Zhou, the purchase price has now reached 10.5 yuan, although a pound sold to 11, 12 yuan, but also can not make much money, a pound of vegetables to earn a 1 piece, 5 cents, and then deduct the stall fee, loss, etc., if the dish is sold out, it is okay, if it can not be sold, but also lose money.
Subsequently, the reporter visited several vegetable wholesale supermarkets located on Shenzhuang Road on future road and found that compared with the farmers' market, the price of green vegetables was similar. Also taking spinach as an example, the price of a pound is 10 yuan.
The staff in the tiemei vegetable wholesale department told reporters that the price of green vegetables has been rising for some time, in addition to the reason for the heavy rain, there is also a reason that it is not the season of green vegetables, there are many dishes that are transported from the northwest region for long distances, the cost is high, and the price is high.
In addition, the reporter also found a phenomenon that compared with the farmers' market and the vegetable wholesale department, the vegetables of the supermarket will be cheaper. Still taking spinach as an example, the reporter saw in the future road Dennis supermarket, a bundle is 5.98 yuan, the reporter randomly picked a bundle of weighing, the weight is 1.06 pounds, and the price of other common greens is mostly below 6 yuan.