Vegetable planting area increased month-on-month at the end of August, vegetable supply stable during the two festivals

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's vegetable production information network, vegetable supply in August increased year-on-year, and farm-gate wholesale prices stopped falling and rose month-on-month. In September, overall vegetable supply is expected to be stable, and farm-gate wholesale prices will continue to rise slightly.

In August, vegetable supply increased both year-on-year and month-on-month. The 580 key vegetable counties' information monitoring points recorded vegetable output of 1.11 million tonnes, up 2.2% year-on-year and up 10.6% month-on-month. By region, the pattern showed "three increases, one decrease and two unchanged." Output in the northern high-latitude summer-autumn vegetable advantage area, the Yangtze River basin winter-spring vegetable advantage area, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau summer-autumn vegetable advantage area increased year-on-year by 13.4%, 6.2% and 4.6% respectively; output in the Loess Plateau summer-autumn vegetable advantage area decreased year-on-year by 12.0%; output in the South China and Southwest hot-zone winter-spring vegetable advantage area and the Huang-Huai-Hai and Bohai Rim facility vegetable advantage area was unchanged year-on-year. By category, among 20 types of vegetables, output of 8 types including tomato, zucchini, radish, eggplant, common cabbage, cauliflower, chili pepper and common bean increased year-on-year by more than 3%; output of 9 types including carrot, celery, Chinese cabbage, Welsh onion, garlic, winter melon, celtuce, Chinese chives and head cabbage decreased year-on-year by more than 3%, with carrot showing the largest year-on-year decrease at 41.4%. Output of the remaining types was basically stable.

In August, farm-gate wholesale prices for vegetables rose both year-on-year and month-on-month. In August, the average farm-gate wholesale price of vegetables at the 580 key vegetable counties' information monitoring points was 2.91 yuan/kg, up 15.0% year-on-year and up 5.1% month-on-month. The average prices for the first, middle and last ten days of the month were 2.92 yuan/kg, 2.92 yuan/kg and 2.90 yuan/kg respectively. By variety, 15 vegetables including green garlic sprouts, climbing common bean, cucumber, carrot, baby cabbage, tomato, purple-skin garlic bulbs, cowpea, Chinese cabbage, celery, zucchini, round eggplant, white-skin garlic bulbs, celery and green Chinese chives rose more than 10% month-on-month, while 2 vegetables including red chili pepper and bell pepper fell more than 10% month-on-month; prices of other varieties were basically stable.

Vegetable supply in September is expected to be overall stable, with prices showing an upward trend. According to statistics, at the end of August, the area of vegetables in the field at the 580 key vegetable counties' information monitoring points was 1.42 million mu, down 1.8% year-on-year and up 9.4% month-on-month. Among these, the area in the field at the end of the month for 3 types of vegetables including cauliflower, carrot and spinach increased year-on-year by more than 3%. Experts analyze that vegetable supply in September is expected to be overall stable, and during the "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "National Day" holidays, farm-gate wholesale prices will continue to rise slightly.