Extreme weather pushes up the prices of some vegetables

Since July, some areas of our country have encountered extreme weather processes such as heavy rainfall and typhoons.

At the Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market in Beijing, a merchant Cao Yanfei told reporters that since July, many vegetable production areas have experienced heavy rainfall, which has had a greater impact on the growth, harvest and preservation of vegetables.

According to vegetable merchants, rainfall is not conducive for workers to harvest from the ground, and it also increases the cost of harvesting labor, driving the prices of vegetables such as cabbage, fennel, and Chinese cabbage to increase by about 20%

Jin Hao, a vegetable merchant in Beijing: Hot peppers are now on the market in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia.

The reporter learned that due to the high vegetable prices last year that increased the farmers' enthusiasm for planting, the planting area in the main vegetable production areas this summer has expanded as a whole, and the production situation is better than the same period last year.

Zhang Jing, chief vegetable analyst of the agricultural product market analysis and early warning team of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Vegetable prices in July experienced a process of first falling and then rising.