Chinese cabbage falls to 8 cents, no one asks for a cheap price, and the tragedy hurts the farmers again.

Recently, many agricultural products (000061) have skyrocketed and plummeted again. For farmers in the north, Chinese cabbage this year has once again become a nightmare. Last year, the purchase price was still in short supply, and no one asked for 7 or 8 cents this year. I can only watch it rot in the ground.

Not only cabbage, but also cotton is once again on the roller coaster, all the way down from last year's high. At this time in previous years, it was the peak season for cotton picking and purchasing, and there was a lively bargaining between cotton vendors and farmers everywhere in the fields. But this year, it is desolate.

The price of cabbage falls to its lowest level in two years. Vegetable farmers are busy for nothing.

Beijing Xinfadi market statistics show that the price of cabbage has fallen to its lowest level in two years. Why is it falling all the way? what is the market situation?

This morning, the reporter visited the morning market at Zhenwu Temple, Xicheng District, Beijing. In front of a stall, customers were bargaining with Chinese cabbage and vegetable merchants.

Greengrocer: one yuan for three jin.

Customer: buy more.

Greengrocer: it's cheap to buy more.

Interviewer: is this year cheaper than before?

Greengrocer: too cheap. In the same period last year, it was sold for one yuan per jin, which was more than half cheaper.

Subsequently, the reporter interviewed Liu Tong, head of the Statistics Department of Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural products Wholesale Market, who introduced the recent price trend of Chinese cabbage:

Liu Tong: "the price of Chinese cabbage has been going down gradually in recent days. As of yesterday, the price seems to have stabilized a little bit. The price we sell now is generally between 16 and 20 cents. At this time last year, it was between 50 and 55 cents. This year is a big drop compared with last year."

In Sijia Village, Tangwang Town, Jinan, Shandong Province, almost every household has planted three or four mu of cabbage, but seeing a bumper harvest of cabbage, they can only frown at the cabbage all over the ground.

Villager A: "Last year, the price of cabbage was 45 cents, but this year it was only 78 cents or 89 cents."

Reporter: can't you sell it?

Villager A: well, it can't be sold. "

Villager B: "it can't be sold. It's rotten. If it's rotten, it can only be treated as garbage."

Reporter: have you been busy in vain this year?

Villager: I've been busy for nothing. I have to change my profession next year and plant something else. We'll grow whatever you want. "

Cotton farmer Tang Chunhua: "this year, the yield of one mu of land is more than 100 jin less than that of last year, and the best land is only 350 or 60 jin. Now it takes more than 500 yuan per mu of land for chemical fertilizers and pesticide seeds alone. Excluding the messy expenses, you can't buy 1500 yuan per mu of land." If you include 320 yuan per mu of land, you basically don't make any money. If you're looking for someone to pick it, you can't lose money. "

What on earth caused the decline in the price of cabbage? Yang Hongkai, vice president of the China Agricultural products Market Association, analyzed and said:

Yang Hongkai: one is the sufficient quantity of vegetables this year, the second is the increase of planting area, and the other is the bumper harvest of major Chinese cabbage producing areas this year.

The reasons for the decline in cotton prices are even more complicated. our reporter interviewed Wang Li, a futures trader who has been concerned about cotton prices for a long time. She told us that at present, the economic downturn in Europe and the United States, the deterioration of China's entire textile export environment, and the rising costs of domestic textile enterprises, resulting in reduced demand.

Wang Li: "Cotton prices have been rising crazily last year, and the rational pullback after the surge is also reasonable. China is a big exporter of cotton textiles, and the reduction in export volume has also led to a decline in cotton prices."

Since the beginning of this year, the phenomenon of "cheap vegetables hurting farmers" has appeared many times. Just take Shandong, the largest province of vegetables in our country, as an example, from the slow sale of some leafy vegetables in May, the decline in the prices of garlic and ginger in early October, and now cabbage. The interests of vegetable farmers have suffered great losses. Guo Hongwei, deputy director of the Market Circulation Department of the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce, said that the main reason is that the current degree of production organization of vegetable farmers is too low, mostly household production, unable to form a scale.

Guo Hongwei: "the key is that it is very difficult for vegetable growers to grasp the planting situation in the future market. We all produce in a single household now. If there are too many varieties, many dishes are easy to meet. This is the most important thing. Your household production can not meet the requirements of large circulation." The key is to improve the degree of organization of our vegetable production. If the whole level of productivity goes up, its grasp and judgment of the market will be accurate, and the problem of harming farmers will be better solved. "