[Background] Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is the largest vegetable production base in Yunnan and an important vegetable distribution center in southwest China. Northwest China, coastal areas, and many first-tier cities have become long-term and stable sales markets for vegetables in Tonghai. Vegetables from many parts of the country will also be collected here and sold to Japan, South Korea, Russia, Southeast Asian countries and Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions. However, the new crown pneumonia epidemic blows a cold wind to the vegetable market in Tonghai.
[Same Period] Tonghai Vegetable Farmer
The price of vegetables is unstable, sometimes high and sometimes low.
[Explanation] On February 21, the reporter visited the vegetable base in Tonghai County and learned that after the outbreak, the vegetable industry in Tonghai was subject to certain fluctuations. At the beginning of the epidemic, it was difficult to transport vegetables externally, logistics costs doubled, and labor was scarce.
[Explanation] However, Tonghai has a long history of vegetable cultivation. Both the government, enterprises and vegetable farmers have a certain ability to resist risks. After a short period of initial fluctuations in the epidemic, the vegetable market gradually stabilized.
[Explanation] The reporter saw in the Tonghai Vegetable Field that when farmers grow vegetables, they will not plant all the fields with the same kind of vegetables, but different types of vegetables. In this way, when the market for vegetables fluctuates, farmers can reduce their losses.
[Explanation] In addition, the local government and chamber of commerce also actively responded, and constantly strengthened docking with various industries in various places to improve logistics capacity and ensure that they can be grown, received, transported, and sold. Tonghai County worked together to ensure the supply of vegetables to markets at home and abroad during the epidemic.
[Concurrent] Yang Wei, Executive Chairman of Tonghai International Chamber of Commerce
After the epidemic, our export volume of vegetables has decreased by 120% compared to the previous period, but our domestic sales, especially for the northern market and the Guangdong coastal market, have doubled (the supply), like our supply These supermarkets, they also need to ensure that during the epidemic in the local market, ordinary people can have vegetables to buy at any time, then we also need to ensure that vegetables are available to them in sufficient quantities at any time, and they are put on shelves in the supermarket. Sometimes they are anxious and we use air transport. Ship over and guarantee their supply.
[Explanation] The reporter saw at Jinshan's largest vegetable wholesale market in Tonghai that the transaction started here at 5 am. The vegetable broker transported the vegetables collected from the farmers to the cold storage, and then loaded them for shipment.
[Explanation] The Tonghai County Chamber of Commerce actively mobilized various companies to stabilize vegetable prices. Many company leaders also said that although the cost has increased, the epidemic is still willing to use profits to ensure stable prices and even donate some vegetables to the hardest hit areas for free.
[Same Period] Vegetable Broker Tang Chao
(Vegetable market) is still okay, relatively stable, and (outbreak) has little effect. Farmers also have money to make, and we also have money to make, but we make a lot less than in previous years. Regarding him, anyway, it is difficult for one party now, and the eight parties support .
Reporter Du Xiaoxiao reports from Yuxi, Yunnan
Editor-in-chief: [Wang Kai]