The price adjustment mechanism of agricultural products needs to be improved.

Recently, there has been an endless stream of merchants coming to Beijing Xinfadi Wholesale Market to buy goods, one after another around large trucks loaded with ginger. "now the wholesale price for a jin of ginger is 10 yuan. Although ginger is not the main dish, it is also a rigid demand, and people will not buy less when the price goes up. " Song Xiaolin, a ginger agent in Anqiu, Shandong Province. At present, the price of ginger in the retail market is as high as 15 yuan to 16 yuan per jin, which has reached a 10-year high, which is more expensive than pork. Brokers at Xinfadi recall that since the price of ginger began to rise in April last year, it has only briefly fallen at the end of last year and May this year, and has been rising for most of the rest of the time.

With the price of ginger rising, Yang Chengbinle, a ginger farmer in Muli Town, Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, blossomed. "Ginger is a high-yield crop, with an average yield of seven or eight thousand jin per mu, and high-yield fields can reach 12000 jin. Calculated on the basis of a yield of 8000 jin per mu and a land purchase price of 5.50 yuan per jin, the gross income per mu exceeds 40, 000 yuan. " According to him, the ginger produced this year will be planed during Cold Dew's solar terms and can only be put on the market after 2 to 3 months of cellar aging.

There are many ginger producing areas in China, mainly in Shandong, accounting for 70% of the total output. Ginger is a typical agricultural product that is produced and sold all the year round. Almost every family in Shandong has a cellar. As long as the weather is suitable and stored properly, it can be kept in the ginger cellar for more than two years. The reduction in ginger production last year and the year before last is a decisive factor in this year's price. According to the data, the planting area of ginger in Laiwu was 100000 mu in 2011, 80, 000 mu in 2012 and 59000 mu in 2013. This will undoubtedly affect the price of ginger this year.

Liu Tong, head of the market statistics department in Xinfadi, said that the planting technology and per unit yield level of agricultural products such as ginger are basically stable, and the most important factor affecting the yield in different years is the planting area, followed by drought and waterlogging disasters and diseases and insect pests. In 2011 and 2012, there was an oversupply of ginger in the market and prices fell sharply, resulting in a significant reduction in the planting area of ginger farmers last year. Coupled with the high temperature and drought in the producing area last year, the production of ginger has been reduced, resulting in a shortage of supply so far this year. The drought and lack of rain in Shandong this year makes it more difficult for the market to produce a high yield of ginger after autumn.

An expert in growing ginger is not necessarily an expert in the market. For most ginger farmers, price movements have always been a mystery. In the past days, they have been reincarnated many times between ups and downs. According to calculations, only when the purchase price of the land is about 1 yuan, can Jiang Nong keep his capital. When fresh ginger was harvested in October 2011, the wholesale price dropped to an average of 0.7 yuan to 0.9 yuan per jin. In 2012, Jiang City remained in the doldrums, with prices hovering at 0.7 yuan per jin, once falling to 0.5 yuan. For Jiang Nong, not to mention making money in the past two years, it is good not to be busy in vain.

There are obvious "big years" and "small years" in growing and selling ginger, which are generally "good two years, bad two years, and even two years". It is necessary to endure the losses of "small years" in order to achieve the prosperity of "big years". As a matter of fact, the trend of ginger prices is changeable. When ginger can come out of the cellar, many ginger farmers do not choose to sell out at once, but to sell half and keep half. Now, what the ginger farmers clear little by little is the storage of ginger in the ginger cellar last year and the year before last, which is a typical treasure to sell.

Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the per capita consumption of minority agricultural products such as ginger is low, consumers are less sensitive to prices than producers, and their fluctuations have a limited impact on individual consumers, which is also the result of the role of the price mechanism. In the long run, although spring onions, ginger and garlic are minority agricultural products, they are also related to the daily life of consumers and the stability of the market. The relevant departments should improve the monitoring and early warning mechanism of market information, improve the construction of the circulation system, and improve the degree of docking of production and marketing and the degree of organization of production.