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Other crops than fruits are also seriously damaged. Prices are running high due to poor supply and demand of vegetables such as spinach, courgette and lettuce.

Reporter Jung Da-eun reports.

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Lettuce is not found in the agro-fishery and vegetable markets in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

[Kim Jong-Tae/Vegetable Store Merchant: I can't put this out, because when I put it out, I'll retreat.] The

amount of water coming up from the mountainous area has been greatly reduced in the long rainy season.

[Kim Jong-Tae / Vegetable Shop Merchant: Lettuce and spinach are too expensive and cannot be sold.] In the

past two weeks, spinach prices have more than doubled.

As the humid weather continued every day, it was easy to squeeze and the price surged, making it difficult to find spinach in the market.

The wholesale price of spinach increased by 173% in two weeks to 4,900 won per box of 4kg, and the wholesale price of zucchini and red lettuce jumped 162% and 110%, respectively.

The prices of watermelon and tomato, Cheorwon, and peach, Chungju, are also high, and the price of fruits is also high.

[Ahn Hyung-ja/Seoul Seodaemun-gu: Courgettes cost 1,000 won at a time, but it has become 2,000 won.]

[Kim Eun-young/Seoul Mapo-gu: Before that, only the two steps of dipping the dolmen and the four steps were dipping. I'm going to

eat it little by little.] Restaurants that are overlooked with corona and are sluggish in sales are all overwhelmed by the increased burden of ingredients.

[Lee Eun-ju/restaurant owner: It's not a business, and it's expensive. Should I close the store door... .] If

the heat waves overlap after the rainy season, shipments may decrease further, so the rise in agricultural product prices is expected to continue into Chuseok.

The government decided to take measures to stabilize supply and demand by shipping stockpiles.

(Video editing: Jeon Min-kyu, VJ: Min-gu Jung)