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The prices of 18 staple vegetables include Chinese cabbages, potatoes and cucumbers rose 62.4 percent in China in the first 10 days of November from a year earlier, said a senior official with the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) in Haikou, capital of South China's Hainan province.
The average wholesale price of the 18 staple vegetables prices in 36 major cities stood at 3.9 yuan per kilogram in the same period, up 11.3 percent from the beginning of the year, said Wang Bingnan, director of the MOC's Market Operation Department, at a meeting to discuss vegetable supply for this winter and next spring.
Several factors contributed to the rises, Wang said.
Abnormal climate events such as spring cold and flooding had cut vegetable output. Increasing costs for oil, pesticides, transport and labor had also contributed to price hikes, Wang said.
In my opinion increasing costs contributes to the rising of price.
I am a student from countryside and I know clearly about the costs hikes. Fertilizers, pesticides, diesel fuel, labor cost; these things have all become more expensive. For example a bag of fertilizer may costs 150 yuan, which was about 110yuan last year. According to my memory my father hired six workers and gave them a salary from 60yuan to 80yuan last year while the number is at least 120 this year.
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I believe that though the crops price rising, the biggest winner is not the majority of farmers. The last beneficiary is the vendors and opportunist speculators.
The Chinese government has taken many measures to control the situation.
The State Council, China's cabinet, announced Sunday a slew of measures to rein in rising commodity prices to ease the economic pressures on the people.
Local governments and departments are required to boost agricultural production and stabilize supply of agricultural products and fertilizer while reducing the cost of agricultural products and ensuring coal, power, oil and gas supplies, the State Council said in a seven-page circular.
The cabinet urged local departments to step up vegetable-planting efforts while stabilizing winter vegetable production and strengthening grain and edible-oil production field management to ward off supply shortages.
To reduce delivery costs, road tolls for vehicles transporting fresh- and live-farm produce will be forbidden from Dec 1, the circular said.
According to the report recently, the price has little decline.
The bread will have of; the milk will also have of, everything will be alright.
