Dragon Boat Festival zongzi price: 1/3 price increase of rice dumplings sold in the market, stable cost of raw materials for hand-wrapped rice dumplings

It will be Dragon Boat Festival in more than a week. The Executive Yuan held a price stabilization group meeting to take stock of the supply of important materials and materials for the Dragon Boat Festival this year. The food for the occasion should be zongzi. After the Consumer Security Department visited the market for sale of zongzi, two-thirds of the prices did not rise, only one-third increased the price, mainly due to the increase in personnel costs and packaging costs. If it is necessary to make rice dumplings, glutinous rice, mushrooms, peanuts, pork, and dried squid by hand, the Executive Yuan believes that they can be fully supplied.

The annual demand for glutinous rice during the Dragon Boat Festival is about 1 metric ton, and the first phase of rice cultivation has begun to be harvested this year. 7382 metric tons of glutinous rice can be harvested before the Dragon Boat Festival, plus 5619 metric tons in stock, which is more than enough. The domestic stock of dried Lentinus edodes is 500m tons, which can meet the demand of about 100m tons of Lentinus edodes in the previous five days; the inventory of domestic peanut kernels plus imports is about 5200 tonnes, and the annual demand for the Dragon Boat Festival is 4000 tonnes more than the usual demand, which is sufficient to cope with the current situation.

Pork is the most important part of zongzi, and the Council of Agriculture has coordinated the mass supply and marketing system in the seven trading days before the festival to increase the supply of raw pigs to 20, 4594, an increase of 11.8 per cent over usual days. Pre-festival demand for domestic pork, from the family package zongzi, good-bye, to use pork with skin. Salted egg yolks are also used to wrap zongzi, and duck eggs are also a necessary ingredient. The daily supply before the festival is 1.4 million, 200000 more than usual, an increase of 16.7%.

Among the various livelihood items in Duanjie, pork has attracted the greatest attention because of the African classical swine fever epidemic in neighboring countries. Because of its African swine fever epidemic, China has to rely on large imports to meet its pork demand, and actively places large orders with countries in non-epidemic areas, resulting in a continuous rise in international pig prices, which has a degree of price comparison effect on China's pig auction prices. according to the pork market price performance investigated by the Price Stabilization Group of the Executive Yuan, it dropped slightly in January and February compared with the same period last year, but rose in March and April, with an annual growth rate of 0.54% and 1.04%, respectively. The fluctuation range of domestic pork market prices in May will be available in early June.

The Council of Agriculture evaluates the current situation and price of domestic pork supply: the stock of imported pork is sufficient and the retail price remains stable. The import volume of pork in China from January to April is about 3.2 metric tons, which is similar to that of last year, indicating that the stock of imported pork is sufficient. Since the beginning of the year, there has been no obvious fluctuation in the prices of domestic pork index parts-Liji and Wuhua compared with the same period last year.

The price of the global meat market has been deeply affected by the African classical swine fever epidemic in China and the global campaign for pigs. There has been a shortage of meat protein in the world, and prices have also risen. The Council of Agriculture has proposed corresponding measures, including advising pig farmers to increase their production target from 8.05 million to 8.2 million, Taiwan Sugar to raise pigs at the right time, and livestock products to release frozen pork in a timely manner.

Eating a zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is appropriate for the occasion. On ordinary days, we also eat zongzi, which is already one of Taiwan's rice food culture.