Vegetable Supply Land Conversion in Beijing: Vegetable Prices Fluctuate Upward

New Beijing News (reporter Chen Lin) with the gradual decline in temperature, vegetable supply in Beijing is also changing from the summer model to the autumn model. Recently, vegetable prices in Beijing have fluctuated upwards. Overall, however, vegetable prices are still about 26% lower than in the same period last year.

According to the statistics of Xinfangdi in Beijing, the weighted average price of vegetables in Xinfangdi market is 1.68 yuan/kg, which is 6.33% higher than that in the same period last week and 25.99% lower than that in the same period last year. The main reason for the rebound in vegetable prices is that the vegetable supply in Beijing is changing from summer mode to autumn mode. There are two aspects of this transformation: the supply area is transferred from the north of Beijing to the surrounding areas and the south of Beijing; the production mode of vegetables is changed from open to cold or warm shed. "The cost of vegetables produced in greenhouses is higher than that of vegetables in open fields, and a moderate rise in prices is a normal manifestation of seasonal fluctuations." The head of Statistics Department of Xinfadi said. Another reason is that after National Day, the canteens of universities, enterprises and institutions work, which has played a certain role in stimulating vegetable demand. However, the current vegetable market is still relatively sufficient, so the upward momentum is not strong, and the prices of some vegetable varieties remain low, which has restrained the overall vegetable prices, making the overall vegetable prices still lower than the same period last year.

The fall of autumn temperature in Beijing is entirely "one autumn rain and one cold". By this week, vegetables in cold summer areas are being delisted one after another. Most of the fresh vegetables sold on the market come from the surrounding areas of Beijing or even south of Beijing, such as celery, cauliflower, lettuce and so on; while the market volume of storage-tolerant vegetables has increased significantly, such as onions, potatoes, winter melons, winter melons, etc. Pumpkin and so on. Journalists visited the market and found that some vegetable producing areas had changed significantly. Taking cabbage as an example, in the early stage, the supply of cabbage in Zhangbei area of Zhangjiakou has entered the end stage, and the following listed cabbage producing areas are more diversified, mainly from Tangshan, Langfang, Baoding and Tianjin in Hebei Province, among which Yutian, Gu'an, Wuqing and other districts and counties are the main ones, forming a situation of multiple cabbage responding to the market at the same time, and the price is relatively low. The main producing areas of lettuce on the market at present are Dashahe in Wuqing, Tianjin, Baoding, Xianghe, Tangshan in Hebei and Yinan in Shandong. In the early period, the supply of lettuce in Zhangjiakou area has basically ended, and only a small amount of lettuce with good quality can be listed, which is also the main reason for the small price rise of lettuce. It is reported that the main vegetable supply areas will be in the southeastern part of Hebei, Tianjin and Shandong for a period of time after this month. From this month, the early vegetables in the South will be listed one after another, and there will be a period of alternating and overlapping listing of vegetables in the South and the north. Therefore, vegetable varieties with lower prices will linger in the trough for a period of time, while the overall vegetable price trend will enter a slow upward phase of the annual cycle. However, due to the better weather conditions in summer and autumn this year than in the same period last year, the growth of vegetable in many fields is generally good, the overall supply capacity of vegetables is better than that in the same period last year, and the price will also be lower than that in the same period last year.