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Facts and whys: China's cheap vegetables problem

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Facing the cheap vegetable price, farmers feel so helpless



When China suffers inflation, food prices are always a significant part of the problem. But this time situations are somewhat bizarre: While the country’s consumer price index is running at a near three-year high, vegetables are so cheap that tons and tons of them are being left to rot away in the fields.


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'Dead cheap'

Last year was better for Xu Yuguang, a Shandong farmer. The price of Chinese cabbage rose to 1.6 yuan (25 cents) per kilogram and he made a tidy profit. This spring, he got only 0.14 yuan each for his 15,000 kg of new harvest.


His family had worked hard for months to cultivate the crop and he lost 0.16 yuan for each kilogram he sold.


"The three mu (0.2 hectare) of Chinese cabbage cost me about 4,500 yuan to grow," said Xu, 41. A wry smile tugged at his mouth as he loaded cabbages from the field to his motor tricycle. "Now I'm selling them at 2,100 yuan in total." That's about $690 in cost and $322 in revenue.

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A farmer is crushing the vegetables


For the cheap prices, many farmers have crushed the vegetables and tilled them into the soil or fed them to livestock. The land needs to be cleared for the next round of planting. But many farmers said they have no idea what to plant next.


The heavy loss proved too much for Han Jin, 39, a farmer in Jinan, capital of Shandong province. The price of the cabbage he grew, a different variety from Chinese cabbage, dropped to 0.16 yuan per kg. He committed suicide on April 16.


Many farmers had no clue why cabbage is so cheap this spring.” Even a plate of fried cabbage in the restaurant costs 10 yuan." One farmer said.

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Why prices plummet?


Many voices in the marketplace lay the blame on the relatively warm and sunny winter that led to bigger harvests, but weather is only one of the factors that cause prices to plunge.


Some said that farmers should be blamed for the price fluctuations. farmers don't know much about the market-regulating mechanism. Their inability to forecast the relation between demand and supply makes them more vulnerable to dramatic price fluctuations.In the past two years, the rising price of Chinese cabbage drove farmers to grow more.


Lin, the Economy Institute researcher, said private capital to speculate on agricultural products retreated from the market this year, leading to the burst of "bubbles in vegetable prices". Speculation last year pushed up prices on produce such as garlic, apples and mung beans.


Demand for some vegetables has been affected recently by the radiation leak at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, said Li, the rural development researcher. Some consumers fear contamination of leafy vegetables, including Chinese cabbage, rape and spinach, grown in China.


Li Guoxiang, a researcher with the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that government measures to curb inflation have contributed to the plunge in prices paid to vegetable.

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Cities can not feel it


The sudden drop in wholesale prices this spring hit vegetable growers across the country, but consumers in the cities would not feel it at all.


Vegetables are still expensive in the cities, and only in the cities, and that’s exactly where the problem is. According to Xinhua News Agency, fat, juicy Chinese cabbages are selling at one yuan per 500 grams in city markets — ten times the price the cabbage growers can fetch in the countryside.


Why, with urbanites paying such princely sums, are farmers leaving their cabbages on the ground?


Cheap agricultural products don't equate to cheap food on the dining table because there are many intermediaries between farm and bowl. Middlemen, transportation companies and the government itself are pocketing the bulk of the price differential.

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A Chinese vegetable vendor waits for customers at a market in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province


As the prices of petrol and labor have risen over the past several months, the costs of harvesting, packaging and transporting produce have stayed high. Logistics-induced costs accounts for two thirds of the total cost for vegetables nationwide.


Any solutions?


Yao Jian, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said on Saturday that the ministry had issued an urgent notice requiring all commerce departments nationwide to take measures to maintain a stable vegetable market. He said commerce authorities would improve information services to help farmers find buyers.


In Shandong, some supermarkets, school canteens and company dining rooms were ordered to buy vegetables locally. The provincial government urged them to help relieve farmers of an oversupply of vegetables.


The vegetable market seems to enter a vicious circle: high price hurts consumers while low price hurts farmers. Any solutions to get China out of the vicious circle?


Your suggestions are appreciated here------
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