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Why do vegetable prices generally rise as the weather turns cooler?

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The weather turns cooler, yet vegetable prices generally heat up

  Price monitoring shows that although the Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, as the recent weather gradually turns cooler, vegetable prices have gradually heated up, with prices rising more often than falling within a week. In the price monitoring on the 27th compared with the 20th, vegetable prices generally rose, mainly as follows: cucumbers 2.3 yuan/jin, up 0.7 yuan/jin, a rise of 43.75%; Chinese chives 1.5 yuan/jin, up 0.5 yuan/jin, a rise of 50%; tomatoes 2.2 yuan/jin, up 0.2 yuan/jin, a rise of 11.11%; green peppers 1.2 yuan/jin, up 0.2 yuan/jin, a rise of 20%; scallions 1.2 yuan/jin, up 0.2 yuan/jin, a rise of 20%; yardlong beans 2.5 yuan/jin, up 0.9 yuan/jin, a rise of 56.25%; green radishes 1.5 yuan/jin, up 0.5 yuan/jin, a rise of 50%; cabbage 0.75 yuan/jin, up 0.15 yuan/jin, a rise of 22.22%; prices of other vegetables such as kale, cauliflower, ginger and garlic were basically flat. 

 
It was learned in the market that in the last two days vegetable prices have basically changed from one day to the next, mainly because market supply has decreased. On the one hand, since the autumn harvest is currently underway, farmers are busy harvesting peanuts and have no time to sell vegetables, so the amount of farmhouse vegetables coming to market has decreased; added to this, as the weather turns cooler, some farmhouse vegetables have basically stopped being sold, greatly reducing the supply and driving prices up. On the other hand, vegetables in our county are currently mainly brought in from elsewhere, and out-of-town vegetables are mainly greenhouse vegetables, so prices have risen relatively quickly. It is expected that as the busy farming season ends, some seasonal vegetables will fall in price, but other vegetables may rise as the weather gradually turns colder. 

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