August 18th morning, in a downtown supermarket, eggplant per catty 4.49 yuan, compared with last month rose by more than half. Not only eggplant expensive, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes prices have varying degrees of rise. According to the Municipal Bureau of prices monitoring, eggplant 4.49 yuan per kilogram this week, up 7% over last week, up 201% over the same period last month, compared with the same period last year also rose by 201%, the same period of the moon and the same period last year, per kilogram is 1.49 yuan. After entering August, potato prices continued to rise, to 1 yuan per kilogram in July, rose to the current 1.99 yuan per catty; radish from July to about 1 yuan per kilogram, up to the current 1.99 yuan per catty; cucumber is about 3 yuan per kilogram, compared with the same period last month and the same period last year rose 7%, respectively. And 20%. Overall, the average price of 18 kinds of vegetables monitored by the Municipal Bureau of prices was 4.09 yuan per kilogram, up by 50.6% over the same period of last month.
According to the Weihai Municipal Bureau of price monitoring division responsible person, vegetable prices are affected by several reasons. First, the high temperature and rainy weather affects the growth of vegetables, resulting in decline, and increase the picking, transportation and storage costs; secondly, part of the production of vegetables has entered the peak period, stubble, market variety, to further reduce the amount of supply, high price.
(source: Qilu Evening News) [original title: August, Weihai market vegetables and egg prices showed a rising trend of both]
