Out-of-season vegetables lead vegetable price rises after New Year's Day

Recently, the overall price trend of ordinary vegetables at the Pinghu Haijixing market in Shenzhen showed more rises than falls: among the 217 ordinary vegetables monitored, the prices of 92 vegetables rose, the prices of 72 vegetables fell, and the prices of the remaining vegetables remained flat, with an overall average increase of 1.49%. Out-of-season vegetables such as long beans, okra and bitter melon had the highest increases. Among them, long beans rose from 3.4 yuan per jin a few days ago to 6.7 yuan per jin, a daily increase of 97.06%; okra rose from 5.5 yuan per jin a few days ago to 10 yuan per jin, a daily increase of 81.82%; bitter melon rose from 2.4 yuan per jin a few days ago to 3.3 yuan per jin, a daily increase of 7.50%.