Vegetable prices dropped straight in the first half of 2017

In recent years, vegetable prices of agricultural products has become the focus of abnormal fluctuations. Especially in the first half of this year, the vegetable prices on the market is quite cheap, the price of vegetables in the supermarkets has also dropped significantly, and about one yuan per kilogram of vegetables occupy half of the country. Behind the decline in vegetable retail prices, vegetable wholesale prices are gradually descending. This spring, celery, garlic, onion, and the second quarter of the listed price of potatoes, has fallen below the cost price, farmers miserable.
In the first half of 2017, the price of individual vegetables has been at a low ebb. The main reasons are as follows: three. The scale and area of production areas are expanded, and the market storage capacity is large. Affected by the high price in 2016, the planting area in all parts of the country has increased this year. Second, the weather is good, planting harvest, and concentrated listing. Third, the overall downturn in the vegetable market.
Now into the rainy season, affected by rain weather, leafy growth will suffer disaster, which will lead to the recent vegetable market has picked up. Therefore, in nearly half a month to a month, the possibility of a sharp decline in vegetable prices is unlikely. In the long run, in the absence of nationwide large-scale meteorological disaster premise, vegetable supply is very loose.
(origin: global fruit and vegetable nets) [original title: China: why vegetable prices running low in the first half of 2017?