Tomatoes soared "worth"

With the seasonal shortage, the price of tomato in the provincial capital soared to 5 yuan per catty in the past week, which is almost equal to the price of eggs. Both are sold for 4.5 yuan.

On November 8, the provincial capital Mojia Street farmers market. After seeing a tomato stall with the words “5.3 yuan/jin,” Zhang Alu was surprised and asked, “How expensive?” The stall owner replied: “The wholesale price has risen. We have only to follow up. Money." Zhang Aunt finally picked two, put it on the scale, 9 two. After paying the money, Zhang Alu said: "Two 4 blocks 5, this money is enough to buy a pound of eggs."

After a visit to some markets in the provincial capital on the same day, the reporter found that the retail price of tomatoes was between 4 and 5 yuan per catty.

In the Wang Ji agricultural and sideline products parity store, the unit price of the tomato on the day was 4 yuan, and the unit price of the egg was 4.3 yuan. The boss said that tomatoes have risen sharply recently and the wholesale price rose to 3.3 yuan the previous day.

The supply of stalls has led to the high prices of vegetables in the major provincial farmers' markets from the Haihu Road Wholesale Market. How much of the wholesale price of tomatoes is in the end? The reporter learned that in the last two days, the wholesale price of tomatoes was between 2.8 yuan and 3.3 yuan.

According to the Xinhua News Agency's national agricultural and sideline products and agricultural materials price system monitoring, the national tomato price has been rising rapidly since the end of August. Calculated on November 4th, the price of tomatoes in the country rose by 66.7%, a record high since last year's Spring Festival.

In response to the recent increase in the price of tomatoes, the owner of the Haihu Road Wholesale Market engaged in the wholesale of tomatoes for many years said, “In addition to the real estate, the tomatoes in our province are mostly from neighboring Gansu Province. One of the reasons for the high prices is the seasonal shortage. The growing tomatoes are gone, the cost of planting greenhouses is high, and the price is naturally higher when they are pulled in. The vegetables in the local facilities have not come down. The supply of stalls has caused tomatoes to sell expensive."