"Ginger Your Army" Reproduces Multi-site Price Innovations

Winter eat radish summer eat ginger, summer is the ginger sales season. An interview with the reporter found that the recent rise in ginger prices was significant, and the prices in many places hit new highs. According to the analysis, the rise in ginger prices and the reduction in planting area are closely related to Jiangnong's reluctance to sell. In the long-term, it is necessary to establish a sound information security mechanism for agricultural products, establish and improve the vegetable production and circulation system, and increase the level of agricultural intensification so as to avoid frequent fluctuations in the prices of agricultural products.

Ginger prices soared

“Harbin market ginger sells at the highest price of 8.78 yuan/kg.” “The price of ginger in Fuzhou has doubled in the past two months.” “The price of ginger and garlic in the Lanzhou market has risen into the era of 6 yuan.” ... In recent days, the news that the price of ginger in the country has skyrocketed has been reported from time to time.

Li Zongfeng, a street vendor at the Wenbo vegetable market on the Jiefang Road in Jinan City, said that the wholesale price of ginger is now RMB 4.2/kg, and the selling price is RMB 5.5/kg; the wholesale price was only RMB 1.5/kg a month ago, and the selling price was RMB 2.2/kg.

The Anqiu ginger and garlic wholesale market in Daheishi Village, Anqiu City, Weifang, is one of the larger ginger wholesale markets in the north. The ginger and garlic here supply Beijing, Shanghai and other large cities and the southern vegetable market all year round. Shen Zhaoping, a sales agent who sells ginger to the south, said: “Ginger started to increase prices after the 'Ginger Ginger' incident. The price stabilized at 2.4 yuan/kg for some time. Now the shipping price has risen to 3.5 yuan/kg. The price is also The past one or two months have risen."

The Xinhua News Agency’s national agricultural and sideline products and agricultural materials price market system has monitored that ginger prices have continued to rise since late June. The current price per kilogram has exceeded 5 yuan, and in some regions, the price per kilogram ranges from 6 yuan to 8 yuan, which is significantly higher than the same period of last year. Compared with June 10, on August 10th, the national ginger price rose by more than 35%.

"Poisonous ginger" to blame?

Beijing Xinfadi Vegetable Wholesale Market currently sells about 100 tons of ginger each day, and most of the ginger production sites are Shandong Weifang. Zhang Yuxi, general manager of the company, said that the price of agricultural products is related to the amount of its listing. The rise in the price of ginger has been affected by the "drug and ginger" incident. “Businessmen and Jiang Nong destroyed a batch of unqualified ginger. Farmers saw that ginger planting area was less this year, and reluctant sellers and gingers were waiting to go up. The ginger market supply was drastically reduced.”

Xu Kun, vice president of the College of Horticulture at Shandong Agricultural University, who has long paid attention to the onion, ginger and garlic market, believes that the price rise of ginger has its own rules, and the “toxic ginger” only accounts for part of the impact. Xu Kun analyzed that in the past few decades, ginger prices have fluctuated and averaged for a period of three years. “Ginger and nobles are only a thousand days, but they are mainly affected by the relationship between supply and demand. Less, cycle."

According to expert analysis, ginger has only one year of ripening. Generally, it is sown every March in March and harvested at the end of October. During this period, ginger supply can only be adjusted by reclaiming ginger stored in an ice cellar. In the first two years, the price of ginger continued to slump, the ginger cultivator's enthusiasm decreased, and the planting area decreased, resulting in insufficient market supply.

Wang Linwu, director of the Vegetable Research Institute of Weifang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that since the supply of ginger is reduced in the market, new ginger will not be available until the end of October. It is expected that ginger prices will remain high in the early period of the listing of new ginger, and the price will be high after a large number of new gingers are listed. Have come back down.

How to avoid sudden rise and fall of agricultural products

Almost every time, there will be reports of individual agricultural product prices soaring and plunging, and people buying difficult farmers to sell hard. From "Gong Youjun", "Garlic," to "Spicy," there is no choice but to play with public opinion.

"The lack of control measures in production, information asymmetry, farmers arrange production blindness, arbitrariness, easily lead to structural shortages or over-production of agricultural products, triggering price imbalances." Liu Tongli, deputy director of Shandong Provincial Agriculture and Industry Office said.

Experts pointed out that from the perspective of market rules, the extent of commodity price fluctuations depends on the elasticity of supply and demand. The smaller the elasticity, the larger the fluctuation. Because the elasticity of supply and demand of agricultural products such as vegetables is smaller than that of general commodities, price fluctuations are naturally larger. However, the soaring prices of vegetable prices have affected the market order. Dishwasher farmers have hurt farmers' interests and the purchase of expensive vegetables has affected people's lives. In this sense, reasonable guidance from the government level is necessary.

“The government should not directly interfere with the price, and it is necessary to do work on the information platform.” A number of professionals told reporters. In their opinion, to avoid the frequent occurrence of “garlic and yours” and “Ginger and your army”, the information protection mechanism should be improved, the timeliness and accuracy of information release should be improved, farmers should be rationally planted, timely marketed, and farmers and consumers should be better maintained. interest.

Some experts also stated that the sudden increase in the prices of agricultural products is a manifestation of the malpractice of China's agricultural decentralized management system. The degree of intensification and organization has increased, and information on production and sales is easy to grasp. “Agricultural production and business model also needs innovation, such as various types of market entities to carry out the distribution of orders, so that production and sales can be achieved forecast,” said Xu Kun.

Zhang Weiguo, director of the Institute of Economic Research of the Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, also believes that in the long term, a comprehensive information service platform for agricultural products should be established and an integrated production and sales operation mechanism should be established to achieve a dynamic balance of supply and demand of agricultural products on the market. "The prices of agricultural products cannot be ups and downs, but there should be a reasonable degree, not the current soaring and plunging."