Sichuan Vegetable Price Report for This Week

The weighted average wholesale price of 28 kinds of vegetables at 9 large and medium-sized vegetable wholesale markets across the province under key monitoring by the Department of Agriculture in the 51st week of 2015 (December 14, 2015 - December 20, 2015, the same below) was 3.70 yuan/kg, an increase of 0.03 yuan from 3.67 yuan last week, up 0.8% week-on-week.

By variety, among the 28 kinds of vegetables, 10 varieties rose relatively sharply, namely broccoli, tomato, potato, winter melon, pumpkin, celtuce, onion, garlic, lotus root and ginger, accounting for 35.7% of the monitored varieties. Among them, the top three in terms of week-on-week price increase were: broccoli at 3.47 yuan/kg, up 28.6%; onion at 3.03 yuan/kg, up 5.3%; winter melon at 2.19 yuan/kg, up 4.8%. There were 11 varieties that fell, namely Chinese cabbage, cabbage, celery, spinach, cauliflower, cucumber, cowpea, eggplant, chili pepper, scallion and dried red chili, accounting for 39.3% of the monitored varieties. Among them, the top three in terms of week-on-week price decline were: spinach at 2.03 yuan/kg, down 15.0%; celery at 2.87 yuan/kg, down 12.8%; cauliflower at 2.15 yuan/kg, down 8.1%. There were 7 varieties with prices basically flat compared with last week, namely Chinese chives, rapeseed, lettuce, carrot, white radish, garlic scape and sweet pepper, accounting for 25% of the monitored varieties.

This week, the simple average wholesale price at origin of 21 comparable vegetables in the 13 vegetable-producing base counties under key monitoring by the Department of Agriculture was 3.2 yuan/kg, flat compared with last week.