How much is a kilo of chili? Chili prices have risen to new highs in recent years

Original title: the price of hot pepper has reached a new high in the same period in recent years.

Recently, "garlic is ruthless" and "Jiang your army" have made a comeback. At present, chili peppers, the darling of winter, are also in the limelight, with prices rising sharply, breaking the new high of the same period in recent years. It can be said that the chili market has been extremely hot.

Throughout the market in recent years, we will find that the market performance of chili peppers will always soar and plummet. So how long will the hot pepper boom last? Are growers and dealers making money at a time when the price of chili peppers is rising?

Sister Wang from Huangshi, Hubei Province, went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables these days and found that the price of chili peppers was very expensive.

Vendor: this pepper is one yuan and two yuan.

Sister Wang: does this chili cost 1.2 yuan? It's so expensive, can you cook?

Vendor: of course, this is enough for stir-fried meat with chili.

Sister Wang bought thick-skinned chili peppers, and she didn't expect the price increase. Li Tao, an analyst at Anhui Baida Zhougudui Agricultural products Wholesale Market, said that this year, the price of chili is different from that of previous years.

Li Tao: according to the usual practice of previous years, vegetable prices have entered a relatively cheap stage after November, but the seasonal decline in vegetable prices this year is not obvious and remains at a high level, especially the price of eggplant fruits represented by green peppers, which is more than 30% higher than that of the same period last year.

According to Zhuochuang statistics, in Shandong, a major pepper production province, the purchase price of three cherry peppers is 7.10-7.15 yuan per jin, an increase of 2.0 yuan per jin, or 40 percent, compared with the listing period, and 60 percent higher than the average price in the same period. In other regions, such as Tongliao, Anhui and Hubei in Inner Mongolia, there has also been a sharp rise in pepper varieties such as green pepper, dried pepper, thin pepper and thick pepper. Cui Xiaona, an analyst at Zhuochuang Information, believes that the reason for the sharp rise in chili peppers is due to the influence of the early climate.

Cui Xiaona: the main reason is the imbalance in supply. On the one hand, due to the influence of early rainfall and high temperature, the yield of hot pepper has dropped sharply, on the other hand, the quality of hot pepper has been seriously affected, and the supply of good goods is in short supply. As many large dealers expected to reduce the production of chili this year, they hoarded and acquired more actively, which led to a sharp rise in chili prices.

Li Tao, an analyst at Anhui Baida Zhougudui Agricultural Wholesale Market, believes that the current price of hot pepper remains high, which will be relatively stable, and even if it falls in the future, it will make up for the falling space in December.

Li Tao: it is expected that the price of green pepper will remain stable in the near future, and may decline slightly in the later period. However, after entering December, it mainly depends on the weather changes, and there may still be room for rebound.

The sharp rise in chili peppers is not good for consumers. Are pepper growers and dealers making money? In the interview, the reporter found that because of the high price, resulting in less consumption, dealers are not easy to walk. And because wholesale prices are high, dealers have to raise prices, which creates an embarrassing situation in which chili peppers are not easy to sell.

Analyst Li Tao believes that judging from the situation in recent years, the prices of vegetables such as chili peppers are greatly affected by the climate, climate disasters are common, and the price changes of agricultural products are more obvious than the same period last year. To ensure the stability of the prices of agricultural products, we need to do a good job in two aspects.

Li Tao: on the one hand, we should increase insurance and encourage farmers to apply for agricultural insurance; on the other hand, we should encourage farmers to operate on a large scale and improve their ability to resist disasters to the climate. For example, large-scale greenhouses can be built, and protected cultivation can improve their ability to resist risks. Now, although the price of vegetables is very high, farmers do not get real benefits, and consumers also spend a lot of money, which is largely caused by the climate. More efforts should be made in this regard to stimulate the enthusiasm of growers.

In addition, the price of chili peppers is also affected by supply and demand. Tan Yingchao, chairman of Zhongjiao Yingchao Hot Industry Development Co., Ltd., said that growers must have some understanding of the changes in the market for chili peppers, so as to control the overall planting area.

Tan Yingchao: I think everyone is predicting that there are not many people who really go to the field and go to the market to grasp the real data now. Everyone is about to evaluate how many chili peppers are in this producing area and how big the planting area is. Specific data are not available.

Cui Xiaona, an analyst at Zhuochuang Information, believes that the sharp decline and surge of chili peppers are still injured by growers and dealers. To reverse this situation, it also needs the joint efforts of the relevant departments of growers.

Cui Xiaona: in recent years, chili peppers and garlic, ginger and apples have all become investment products of rich bosses. The main reason for the sharp rise and fall in prices is the excessive elasticity of supply. If the price is too high this year, the common people will increase the acreage indefinitely, while if the price is too low, the planting will be greatly reduced. If we want to fundamentally solve this strange circle, we need to set the planting area within a reasonable range. Nowadays, all kinds of news are well-known, and growers can also pay attention to the changes in the market of chili peppers through television, the Internet and other means. when the price is too high, they cannot hastily increase the number of seeds in the second year, and the price is too low to greatly reduce the number of seeds. Several kinds of agricultural products can be cultivated alternately. In addition, the relevant departments of the local government can also instruct farmers what to plant, how much and how to plant in a special market year.