This year, the price of potatoes has risen by 40% and the increase in prices has affected the working class

Following the debut of “garlic oysters”, “beans you play”, “Gao Gaozong”, “Gang Youjun”, and “cotton needles”, agricultural products have almost risen in turn, and now they are buried in the ground. Not willing to be left out, but also jumped out.

Zhengzhou, a potato wholesaler has been stationed in Inner Mongolia for 10 days, has not "buy" to a car potato, the boss in the past can be sent back to Zhengzhou 3 cars potatoes. According to its analysis, potato prices have risen by 40% this year compared to last year.

The wholesalers were stationed in Inner Mongolia for more than 10 days. Sun Zhanmin, the vegetable owner of Zhengzhou Agricultural Products Logistics Distribution Center, who had not bought a vehicle for potatoes, went to Inner Mongolia to purchase potatoes 10 days ago. However, it has not returned a car to Zhengzhou.

Yesterday afternoon, Sun Zhanmin, who was more than 1,700 kilometers away, told reporters on the phone that he had not found a suitable potato in Inner Mongolia.

“A bit better potatoes, the local people are clamoring not to sell. In August, at the time, the best purchase price for a pound was 9 cents, followed by a pound of 7 cents. More than 20 days ago, the better potatoes basically Can not find, the original 7 cents a pound of potatoes also rose to 1.1 yuan." Sun Zhanmin said, if willing to make a big price, but also to get the goods, is afraid to pull Zhengzhou, too expensive to sell.

The wholesale price of potatoes in Inner Mongolia has risen to 1 yuan/kg or more, while the potato prices in the wholesale market in Zhengzhou have hovered around 1.3 yuan/kg. Sun Zhanmin said that according to the current purchase price and sales price, it is impossible to earn money. This is why he has never dared to start in Inner Mongolia.

Potato prices rose 40% from last year

In Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, September and October were the potatoes' acquisition period. At this time last year, the purchase price of potatoes was more than 4 pounds, and the market retail price was more than 7 pounds. This year, it doubled year-on-year, and the purchase price was close to 1 yuan. The market price has reached 1.5 yuan/kg to 2 yuan/kg.

According to domestic sources, in Heilongjiang Province, another major producing area of ​​potatoes, it has been difficult to find potatoes below 1 yuan per kilogram, and even the rich cannot buy potatoes.

“The sale of potatoes began on September 15 this year and the price was RMB 0.6 per catty. It quickly rose to RMB 1 per catty. Now the potatoes in the hands of farmers have all been sold out. The buyers who come late in the south can only return home empty handed. According to Chen Yangui, president of the Potato Industry Association of Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, told reporters.

Sun Zhanmin also said that the price of potatoes in the wholesale market in Zhengzhou was 80 cents a pound at this time last year, the best variety was 1 yuan, and the best variety this year rose to 1.45 yuan/kg, and the rest was 1.2 yuan/kg to 1.3 yuan. /jin. The wholesale price of potatoes has risen by 40% over last year.

Extending "to soy sauce in Hong Kong" into a buzzword In fact, watching the wave of rising prices, not only Zhengzhou, not only the Chinese, at present, many countries around the world are suffering from the pain of rising prices.

In South Korea, cabbage has soared 261.5% in the short term. Koreans who like to eat kimchi can not stand the fact that Chinese cabbage has soared in a short period of time. They began to call it the “Ferrari in vegetables”. In order to buy the government-supplied special cabbage, some South Korean citizens also fought. People who buy food have said that seeing cheap cabbage is like "seeing gold."

In September, India's inflation rate was 8.62%. A survey on November 1 showed that rising food prices are the biggest concern for Indians over the next six months.

Recently, the media has monitored that there are many Shenzhen people shopping in Shenzhen at the busy Luohu Port in Shenzhen. Their backs are not brand-name clothes or cosmetics, but are everyday items such as salted vinegar, detergents and baby milk powder.

Someone took an account. According to the current exchange rate, a bottle of 500 ml of Lee Kum Kee raw soy sauce is priced at HK$5.95 in Hong Kong, and Shenzhen supermarket price is at 6.6 yuan; Shenzhen eggs have risen to one of nine corners, and eggs of almost the same size are in Hong Kong. Supermarkets can buy 30 Hong Kong dollars at HK$23, which is equivalent to less than 7 cents per renminbi.

As the price of goods on the mainland continues to rise, the phenomenon of Hong Kong residents purchasing goods from Shenzhen to Shenzhen has been reversing for many years. The astute Shenzhen citizens have begun to “make soy sauce” in Hong Kong.

Some people have analyzed that the price increase in this round of the working class is most affected.

“Do you want to go to Hong Kong to make soy sauce?” In recent days in some community forums and QQ groups in Zhengzhou, this greeting has become a buzzword. If you answer to soy sauce in Hong Kong, the life of the housewife has been affected. A cursory survey by reporters showed that more than 80% of respondents said that rising prices have affected daily life.