Prices of Vegetables Went Up with the Flying Snow —Report from Yiwu vegetable market

Prices of Vegetables Went Up with the Flying Snow
—Report from Yiwu vegetable market

Yiwu welcomed the first snow of 2010 yesterday, after which vegetable prices in all Yiwu vegetable market  have risen up. “I knew today’s vegetable prices were bound to rise, but have never thought they should increase so wildly. ” At 2 p.m yesterday, in front of Yiwu vegetable market, He Jun said with resignation when she came across her neighbor aunt Feng after finishing buying.

Following aunt Feng, Amanda reporter walked into the retail area of vegetables only to see buyers and sellers overcrowded. Aunt Feng said, “usually it is after 4 p.m that the vegetable market will have so many people. Maybe because of the heavy snow today, people like me all come here earlier to buy food being afraid that the prices of vegetables may suddenly rise up.”

But to the surprise of aunt Feng, prices of almost all vegetables have been raised. The greens sold at 0.4 yuan per jin the day before yesterday have grew up to 0.8 yuan per jin, spring onion also rose from 2 yuan to 2.5 yuan per jin.

At vegetable wholesale area, the hallway was fully parked with agricultural tricycle, big trucks, pickup trucks loaded with all kinds of vegetables. The unloading and the packing were crowded together to bargain and there were full of busy people.

Head of Yiwu vegetable market said, the vegetables in Yiwu market are mostly from Jiangsu, Shandong and Hainan. Because of the snow, there was fear that the load may be frozen under such low temperature, thereafter, highway traffic was closed and foreign vegetable could not be transported in, which led to the crazy buying scene in the market. He believed that prices of vegetables in Yiwu vegetable market will certainly fall down until the weather is clear.