Shallots and nobles

Following the "garlic you" and "Ginger your army", "to the money onions" debut. Recently, people in many cities have found that the prices of onion have soared. It costs only 10 yuan for Beijing and Jinan to buy two green onions. Compared with northern cities, Shanghai's vegetable market is a lot cheaper than Shanghai green onions, but its value is also doubled – the price is roughly 4.5 yuan/kg –5 yuan/kg.

What are the reasons for this, so that the prices of green onions, which were not “golden and expensive,” have turned upside down in a short period of time? From the planting of onion farms to the onion sales terminal market, the seven links involved in the sales chain of Shanghai green onions were investigated one by one.

In the investigation, it was found that there were various reasons such as the reduction in output of main producing areas such as Shandong, the shortage of goods in northern markets, the increase of prices in layers at middle levels, and the cold weather behind the soaring prices of Chinese green onions. Surprisingly, however, the price of green onions has skyrocketed and some of the top dealers have made a fortune. In just three months, the price in the primary distribution market has trebled, and even some dealers have earned 10 million yuan from it. There are signs of hoarding by some dealers.

Some sales dealers in the circulation section have made tens of millions of profits. In Fengxian's Spark Farm and other places, it has been found that individual dealers are hoarding supplies, which, to a certain extent, has also helped increase the price of scallion.

It is understood that in the onion production and sales chain of Fengxian Wusi Farm, Xinghuo Farm, and Lingang Town in Nanhui District, there has been a mode of contract cooperation between “farmers and dealers”: ordinary farmers have contracted down tens of acres. On the land of a hundred acres, some dealers talked about good prices with farmers after they planted green onions, and contracted sales of all onions of farmers.

Some dealers contracted one acre of green onions from 2000 yuan to 3,000 yuan last year, and now they have reached a maximum of 18,000 yuan/mu. Feng Xian's agent, Wang Shouqin, said that the production of scallions from 4,000 to 4,500 kilograms per mu resulted in the price of kilograms per kilogram rising from the normal price of 0.6 yuan/kg to 1.8 yuan/kg, and the huge price difference was earned by dealers. went.

The price of green onions is not one step up, but it is rising upside down. The owner of the dealership in Shandong told the reporter that before and after New Year's Day, the onion price remained at a normal level of about 0.6 yuan/kg, about 1 yuan/kg before the Spring Festival, and it continued to rise until after the Spring Festival, it quickly rose to 1.5 yuan/kg.

Because of the contracting mode, some first-class distributors contracting hundreds of acres of top-grade acres and scallions are all “get rich”. “We have made two or three million yuan less, or even tens of millions more.” And among these dealers There are also many people who have accumulated hoardings. According to the introduction of some welcoming onions farmers in the Spark Farm, two brother brothers named Zhang surnamed here contract about 2,000 mu of green onions. There are still more than half of the inventory is not sold, "at least 10 million yuan."

According to the Xinhua News Agency’s national agricultural and sideline products and agricultural product price monitoring system, the trend is different from that in previous years. Since mid-February this year, the price of Chinese green onions has continued to rise. Compared with February 10, on March 14th, the price of Chinese green onions increased by 22.9%. At present, the year-on-year increase in scallion prices in the country has continued to increase. The price rose by 66.7% year-on-year on March 14.

The high price of green onions affects consumers' nerves temporarily. Many netizens complained about the stress of direct call. According to industry insiders, since the beginning of this year, the prices of scallions have increased significantly, mainly due to factors such as the climate and the shrinking planting size. The bad market conditions for two consecutive years caused the enthusiasm of onion farmers in some areas to be seriously affected, and the growing area of ​​welsh onions declined. Not only has the planting area been reduced, but the average yield per acre has also declined, which has caused a shortage of supply in the market.

At the same time, green onions from the land to the common people's table must at least undergo the steps of “cultivating onions, small brokers, large brokers, transporters, large wholesale markets, small wholesalers, and markets”. Boosting onion prices rose.

The government has stepped up supervision Although the high price of green onions is difficult to maintain in the eyes of business owners, it is difficult to continue for a long time. Some vegetable traders believe that with the warming of the weather and the expansion of cultivation, the high price of scallions will soon be eased. "After the weather has warmed, the northern green onions have been listed and the market supply has been guaranteed."

In fact, as early as 2010, the State Council executive meeting once pointed out that it is necessary to formulate and improve the contingency plan for the supply of vegetable market, establish a vegetable reserve system, and ensure the dynamic inventory of important storage-resistant vegetable varieties for 5-7 days. But since then, Zhengzhou, Beijing, Xuzhou and many other cities have established temporary vegetable reserve systems. However, most of the vegetables that are stored in cities are Chinese cabbage, white radish, carrots, potatoes, etc., but common ingredients such as onion and garlic have not been used. Included.

There are too many links in the middle of the table from the top of the farm produce to the ordinary people's table, leading to even a few times the price of the original not so high. Zhang Weiguo, director of the Institute of Economic Research of the Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, suggested that as soon as possible, promote the docking measures between agricultural super-tocking and agricultural production enterprises and farmers, gradually reduce the intermediate circulation of agricultural products, establish a nation-wide agricultural information release network, and improve farmers' understanding of relevant information. Channels, guide farmers to scientific planting, adopt super agricultural docking and other methods to reduce circulation links, and allow agricultural product prices to return to reasonable levels as soon as possible. For excessive inflation caused by excessive money, the central bank should adopt a series of measures to effectively control prices and fully consider the affordability of the people. "In addition to controlling bank loans, various indirect financing channels need to be included in the scope of control. This requires careful scrutiny of the existing financing methods and the identification of various types of money that are in fact indirect financing, which will be included in the scope of broad loan monitoring.

In addition, local governments must play the role of government, use modern media tools, timely inform market information, and guide farmers, farmers, growers, fruit farmers, and farmers to arrange their own planting plans according to market needs to balance supply and demand conflicts so as to avoid blindly following the trend. In one go.

In addition, the phenomenon of excessive costs and price speculation in the circulation of certain areas, local regions, and industries will also pose serious threats to stabilizing the price level. The results of the regulation of the price of silkworm food require the relevant departments to strike out and severely. Renovate, and grasp the guidance of public opinion, correctly guide social expectations.

Farmers need to be vigilant that the prices of agricultural products will once again be shaken. The price of bulk agricultural corn has recently hit a record high, and the green onions have become another agricultural product that has experienced a “surge” after garlic and ginger. Xinhua News Agency economic analysts believe that with the warming of the weather and the expansion of planting areas, scallion soaring prices are difficult to continue, and is expected to fall. However, we must be vigilant that some vegetable growers may blindly expand the planting scale due to rising prices of welsh onions, leading to the occurrence of “selling difficulties” in large quantities of scallions in the future.