"Garlic is expensive" may exist for a long time
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"garlic town" officials say the price of garlic rose
China Economic Weekly reporter Song Xuelian reported
the folk saying "garlic madman, ginger idiot" from ancient times, said two kinds of agricultural products: garlic and ginger. The price is changeable and the fluctuation is intense. It is not surprising that their prices are changing, but garlic prices are much less expensive than pork.
since the end of last year, the price of retail garlic has risen 40 times over the same period in Shandong, one of the main garlic producing areas in China, reaching 9 yuan per kilogram. In another main producing area of Henan, garlic prices even rose 100 times over the same period. At the same time, in some big cities like Beijing, the garlic price of some supermarkets is as high as 20 yuan per kilogram. The price of garlic has become the focus of social attention.
there is a saying that there are several hundred billion yuan of funds to hide the agricultural products market, including some garlic products. However, this round of garlic prices rising by the speculation of idle funds has not been officially recognized. In May 17th, Yao Jian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that from the view of the international market of agricultural products, there has always been a large amount of funds involved in the market of agricultural products. "In terms of China, capital speculation is not the main factor in the price rise of agricultural products."
in May 8th, the largest garlic production and trading place in the country - Jinxiang County, Shandong Province, held the "Shandong Jinxiang garlic green product docking meeting" in Beijing Xin Fa wholesale market, and officially launched the "green garlic Beijing Lu".
for Shandong Jinxiang was referred to as the source of the price of garlic, Zhang Shengming, the Secretary of the county Party committee of Jinxiang County, Shandong, told the Chinese Economic Weekly that the fluctuation of the garlic price was behind the shortage of the goods.
the origin of the origin is short of
before garlic is not so heated by public opinion, few people know that in the global garlic planting country, China is ranked first in about 700 thousand hectares, and the output also accounts for more than 70% of the world.
"the garlic planting area in China was affected by the low price in 2007 and 2008. The first time in 2009, the area of planting area, unit output and total output fell, and the overall decline was about 30%." Ni Yuanying, a professor at China Agricultural University, told China Economic Weekly.
according to statistics, 2007 National Hybrid garlic sowing area of 4 million 500 thousand mu, and in 2008, only 2 million 800 thousand mu of hybrid garlic, the reduction of planting area, coupled with the weather causes a single decline in production, making the total output of garlic significantly decreased.
"garlic production accounts for 1/4 of the country and the export volume accounts for more than 70% of the country of garlic in China, for example, the stock of old garlic is about about 400000 tons every year, but only 100 thousand tons in this year." Zhang Shengming told China Economic Weekly, "at the same time, we exported 57 thousand tons of garlic in the first quarter of this year, up 10% over the same period last year, accounting for 70% of the current circulation of garlic in Jinxiang."
Zhang Shengming said that, in addition to the shortage of planting area in recent years and the shortage of garlic supplies, the sudden increase in export volume in recent years has made the relationship between supply and demand of garlic more stressful.
for a long time, China's garlic exports account for about 90% of the world's garlic trade. Wang Rongjiang, vice president of China vegetable Circulation Association, told reporters that according to the US Department of agriculture, in 2006, 73% of Chinese garlic sold to the US market.
Wang Rongjiang told China Economic Weekly, in fact, compared with the price of 20 yuan 1 jin of garlic in the United States, the price of garlic at home 5, 6 yuan and 1 jin is relatively reasonable.
circulation premium
in Jinxiang county magistrate Liu Zhangjian, although the current garlic price is at a high point, but does not deviate from the value of garlic in Jinxiang, still in a reasonable range. "As far as society is concerned, this year's price rise is too high, mainly due to the low price of last year."
this is also the case in Qixian County, Henan, another main origin of garlic. According to media reports, in Qixian County, Henan, in 2008 and early 2009, the garlic was thrown in the ground, and a packet of cigarettes could be changed to a sack of garlic. "
" in mid August last year, the purchase price of garlic had reached more than 2 yuan per city, plus the storage of cold storage, logistics and transportation and other costs, the price of sales naturally increased accordingly. " Liu Zhangjian said that the price recovery of garlic is normal now.
Hu Dinghuan, a researcher at the Institute for Agricultural Economics and development at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, argues that the price of garlic is much higher due to the circulation of middlemen. Hu Dinghuan gave the reporter an account: "agricultural products enter the supermarket, needs a lot of intermediate links, sold to the brokers by farmers, and then to wholesalers, suppliers, and then into the supermarket." I have done a study, with tomatoes, for example, from farmers to supermarkets to track the whole industrial chain, farmers 2 yuan a kilogram of tomatoes sold, in the supermarket to the consumer's hands, turned into 5 yuan a kilogram.
"if the middle link is removed, the supermarket can cooperate with the farmers directly, at least 20% to 30% of the cost can be saved, not only the sale price can be reduced, but also the farmers' income may be raised by 10%." Hu Dinghuan said.
it is reported that Jinxiang County, Shandong Province, sent garlic to Beijing this time, which aims to directly increase the income of Jinxiang garlic farmers with the help of a fast and effective "production and marketing platform", promote the efficiency of Jinxiang agriculture, and also serve the food basket of the citizens of the capital.
"garlic expensive pork" or the long-term existence of
experts believe that the high price of garlic is more worthy of concern, it should be to improve the added value of domestic garlic. At present, the ratio of post natal value and natural output value of agricultural products in developed countries is about 3:1, while that in the United States reaches 3.7:1, while that in China is less than 0.5:1.
"at present, there are more than 130 garlic processing products developed internationally, and only 40 in China." Ni Yuanying said, "in Japan and South Korea, including some European and American countries, garlic is exported to China. They import Chinese garlic, garlic powder, garlic slices, fresh garlic, in its domestic intensive processing, garlic oil capsules, oral liquid and so on, and then return to China, and earn a high profit.
Ni Yuanying told China Economic Weekly. At present, China's garlic processing industry chain is too simple, domestic consumption is generally direct fresh food, and there is fresh export. According to the data monitored by the Ministry of Commerce, 1 million 500 thousand tons of garlic and 20 thousand tons of pickled garlic are exported every year in China. These two kinds are primary processing; 150 thousand tons of dehydrating category can only be medium processing; more than 700 garlic export enterprises, only three or four are engaged in the export of deep processed products. "In comparison, the economic benefits are very low."
, therefore, some experts believe that some funds should be encouraged to enter the garlic processing industry, bring in advanced technology and develop the intensive processing of garlic, which is not only beneficial to consumers, but also for the increase of garlic farmers' income.
there are people in the industry telling reporters that with the increasing demand for health and quality of life, it will be an inevitable trend for vegetables, especially green and pollution-free vegetables, to exceed the price of pork. Take garlic as an example, the price of garlic oil in the international market has exceeded RMB 500 yuan. "Garlic is expensive and pork should be a natural manifestation of its value."