When will Ningbo's vegetable basket 'light' down?

"Fruit is really too expensive. I hope my Snow White will bring a cart of apples to marry me!" "Don't stop me, I'm going home to grow fruit"... Two days ago, the microblog China News Network launched a vote: fruit prices rose by more than 40% in June. What do you think? More than 6,000 netizens participated in the poll, of which 64.7% said they were "too expensive to eat anymore", and 25.8% hoped that fruit prices would fall as soon as possible. The data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on July 10 show that in June this year, China's total consumer price, or CPI, rose by 2.7% year-on-year, the same as last month. Among them, fresh fruit price rose 42.7%, pork price rose 21.1%, fresh vegetable price rose 4.2%, which is an important factor in price rise. As far as Ningbo is concerned, in June this year, the CPI of Ningbo urban area increased by 2.4% year-on-year, with food prices rising by 4.5%, fresh melons and fruits and pork prices rising by 44.9% and 15.9%, respectively. Fruit and pork are hard to be free!

"The cheapest one of its kind is clearly chosen. I didn't expect to pay so much for it." Yesterday, Lu Jingjing, a white-collar worker living in the eastern new town, went into an ordinary fruit store and bought a mango, a box of tomatoes, four oranges, a bunch of grapes and a small box of blueberries. His original budget was 100 yuan, but he finally paid more than 150 yuan. She told reporters that she wanted to buy dates, cherries and grapes, but saw the price of "dates, 130 yuan per kilogram", "cherries, 150 yuan per kilogram", "grapes, 200 yuan per kilogram", and immediately foolish. "I couldn't even afford fruit." Lu Jingjing taunted herself.

Not only fruit, the day before yesterday, when reporters visited the vegetable market, they learned that many residents said pork prices were on the high side. In Fenghuazhuang Mountain Vegetable Market, resident Aunt Wang is pouring bitter water: "Pork price was less than 30 yuan per kilogram last year, now it is almost 40 yuan, and the price of spareribs per kilogram is not lower than 50 yuan."

Through Ningbo Intelligent Price Platform, the reporter inquired about the prices of fruits and pork in major vegetable markets and found that on July 17, apples ranged from 12 yuan to 24 yuan per kilogram, pears ranged from 6 yuan to 22 yuan per kilogram, ribs ranged from 30 yuan to 44 yuan per kilogram, ribs ranged from the lowest to 46 yuan per kilogram.

"From the statistical data, the rise in food prices is the main factor leading to the CPI increase in the first half of the year in our city." According to the new statistical caliber after the weight adjustment in 2016, CPI food is divided into eight sub-categories: grain, edible oil, fresh vegetables, livestock, meat, aquatic products, eggs, dairy and fresh fruit. The rising prices of fresh fruit and pork directly affect the rise of food prices in our city. From June 3 to June 30, the prices of non-seasonal fruits such as apples, pears and bananas were all at a high level, and the average price of pork continued to increase. Although pork was the off-season of consumption, the overall price was still in the rising stage. According to the data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas the day before yesterday, China's "Wholesale Price 200 Index for Agricultural Products" was 113.70 in the first half of the year, 8.36 points higher than the same period last year. In June, the average price of Fuji apples, watermelons, bananas and other fruits, which were mainly monitored, reached 8.39 yuan per kilogram, up 51.7% year on year. In June, the average price of pork wholesale market in China reached 21.59 yuan per kilogram, up 29.8% year on year. It seems that if fruit and pork want "freedom", citizens have to wait. Why are fruits and pork rising?

"Are we going to eat fruit on different occasions and situations like Japan?" When summer vacation arrived, Wang Duodou, who returned from studying in Japan, rushed into the fruit shop with great interest to have a good meal of fruit in China. But he found that the cheapest apple in the fruit store was 13 yuan per kilogram, while his favorite red Fuji Apple was as high as 20 yuan per kilogram. "Japan has more mountains and less land, and the price of fruit is high. Why is China so expensive?" Wang Duoduo was puzzled.

"Fruit prices continue to run at a high level, with obvious seasonal and periodic characteristics." The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Commerce Bureau said that since most of the fruits in our city come from other places, the price fluctuates greatly.

According to the relevant person in charge of the wholesale market of vegetables and fruits, the apples in our city mainly come from Shandong and Shaanxi. Because of the extreme weather last year, the total yield of apples in these two areas was reduced by nearly 30% and the storage capacity was insufficient. 

"At present, the daily supply of live pigs in our city is about 5000, 70% of which come from Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Jiangxi provinces. Since March this year, the wholesale price of live pigs in these areas began to rise, and the increase in June has expanded." The relevant person in charge of the wholesale market of meat, poultry and eggs in the city said that the main reason for the rise in meat prices in our city was the staggered imbalance between supply and demand. In recent years, the price of northeast pig has risen sharply, and the situation of pork supply shortage and price increase will be concentrated in July. Should the price of food, especially fruit and pork, still rise in our city?

"After July, with the gradual decline of the tail factor and the gradual control of the African swine plague, it is estimated that the CPI will increase by 2 words in our city.