The price of green onions has risen by nearly 60% a month!

Consumers: used to buy by bundle, now by root

  New Jingwei photo by Yan Shuxin in the data map

  Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, December 17th (Yan Shuxin) Ms. Niu from Beijing did not expect that the price of onion will rise so fast in the near future.

  A month ago, Ms. Niu bought two bundles of scallions at the Beijing Baliqiao Market at a price of about 2 yuan per catty. “I was hesitant to buy so many, but now I really regret buying less.” Ms. Niu told Zhongxin Jingwei Reporter, recently, the price of green onions in supermarkets has risen sharply. Last month, it was only about 3 yuan per catty. Now most of them have risen to 6 yuan, and some are even higher.

"It costs nearly 10 yuan to buy two or three scallions. I have not seen such expensive green onions in years."

Ms. Niu said.

  Recently, the price of onion has risen sharply, which has caught consumers off guard.

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, on

December 15, the national wholesale price of green onions was 7.07 yuan/kg, an increase of 59.59% from a month ago

. Compared with the price of 2.12 yuan/kg in April this year, the increase was 233.49%.

  How long will the green onions rise towards the end of the year?

A scallion is nearly 6 yuan?

  According to the latest monitoring data from the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Market Price Information System" of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, from December 4 to December 11, the national wholesale price of green onions was 6.28/kg, an increase of 13.4% from last week and an increase of 175.9% from the same period last year. .

  Zhang Jing, chief analyst of the vegetable market analysis and early warning team of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and associate researcher of the Institute of Agricultural Information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the

wholesale price of green onions has reached the highest level in the past four years

.

  At the retail end, the price of green onions has soared.

How expensive are scallions?

Recently, China-Singapore Jingwei reporters randomly visited many supermarkets and fruit and vegetable shops in Beijing.

  A reporter from Sino-Singapore Jingwei found in a supermarket chain in Chaoyang District, Beijing, that ordinary green onions were priced at 5.98 yuan per catty, and the price tag was affixed by the staff in advance, 3-4 pieces per copy, and the price was 7-10 yuan. Etc.; fine green onions are about 9.9 yuan/jin.

  In a large supermarket in Tongzhou District, the price of green onions is 4.69 yuan per catty. If some of the green onions are removed, the price is 5.99 yuan per catty. For some packaged clean onions, the price of two roots is 11.9 yuan. Nearly 6 yuan.

  In a large supermarket in Tongzhou District, the packaged net shallots cost 11.9 yuan for two.

Photo by Yan Shuxin, Sino-Singapore Jingwei

  In a community supermarket in Tongzhou District, the price of green onions also reached 5.99 yuan per catty.

A staff member in the vegetable section of the supermarket told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client that after September, the price of onion began to rise significantly, and recently it has risen a lot. “It was only three or four yuan a catty at the end of last month.”

  In some fruit and vegetable stores, the price of green onions is as high as 8.31 yuan per catty; on takeaway platforms, some businesses even sell green onions by root, ranging from 2-4 yuan per root.

  Even for e-commerce vegetable selling platforms that have been frantically engaged in a "price war" recently, the price of green onions is not cheap.

On Meituan Shopping, about 450 grams of green onions are priced at 5.9 yuan; on the daily premium, 500g of Shandong green onions are priced at 7.9 yuan.

  "The price of spring onion is busy increasing", so consumers call it too expensive.

“It costs nearly 10 yuan to buy two or three roots, but it was only a few cents per catty at this time last year.” Ms. Niu told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client.

  When consumer Ms. Yang was shopping for scallions in the supermarket, she felt even more emotional, “It’s a big mistake not to stock up for two or three yuan a catty in advance.”

How long can green onions grow?

  Why are green onions so expensive this year?

Fu Yifu, director of the Consumer Finance Research Center of the Suning Institute of Finance, analyzed to the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client that this is mainly affected by a variety of factors,

among which the imbalance of supply and demand is the root cause

.

  "Since June this year, many areas across the country have experienced several rounds of heavy rainfall. Affected by this, the overall growth environment of green onions in many main producing areas in the country is not as good as in previous years. Floods in some areas have drowned many green onion seedlings. , Resulting in a significant reduction in the production of green onions, and the relative shortage of market supply has also raised its prices to a large extent.” Fu Yifu said.

  On the other hand, the planting area is also a key factor affecting the supply of green onions.

Fu Yifu introduced that due to the high overall output of green onions in 2019, the market is oversupply, and the price of green onions has fallen all the way to only a few cents per catty at the lowest point. Moreover, many main producing areas such as Shandong and Yunnan have seen a lot of slow sales. Many green onions are left to rot and deteriorate, and the income of farmers is greatly reduced as a result.

By 2020, many farmers are unwilling to plant more green onions, but switch to other vegetable categories, which has led to repeated reductions in the planting area of ​​green onions, resulting in a decline in production and a rise in prices.

  New Jingwei photo by Yan Shuxin in the data map

  According to the Jinan Times, Zhangqiu District of Jinan is the main producer of green onions in Shandong. The wholesale price of green onions has risen to more than four yuan per catty, which is an increase of eight or nine times compared with the five or six mao per catty in the same period last year.

  Seeing that green onions continue to rise sharply, many consumers are beginning to worry: How long can green onions continue to rise?

Can I buy cheap spring onions before the Spring Festival?

  In this regard, Fu Yifu predicted that in the short term, with the approach of the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, market demand will strengthen, and the price of green onions is still likely to continue to rise, but the probability will not exceed the law of changes in previous years.

  "Observing historical data, we can find that the overall performance of the price trend of green onions is:

there is an increase in the price during the end of the year and the beginning of the year, and the price is at a high level throughout the year, and there will be a downward price trend at the end of the first quarter

; since 2013 Since 2011, the price of green onions has only risen extremely rapidly in the first half of 2016, and has been in a relatively stable fluctuation range at other times. In the past two months, the price of green onions has shown a significant price increase, but compared to the historical high In the first half of 2016, there is still a big distance." Fu Yifu said.

  According to the forecast of the supply and demand situation and price trend of the vegetable market by the Ministry of Rural Agriculture

, the price of green onions may reach a peak before the Spring Festival under the situation of overall tight supply.

(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)

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