Garlic prices listed on new garlic are 9.2 yuan lower than last year's highest price per kilogram.
: Weihai evening news
recently, with a large number of new garlic on the market, the prices of garlic have been losing the "prestige". Yesterday, the reporter visited the wholesale market of agricultural and sideline products in Weihai, Shandong province. The average wholesale price of garlic was 4.8 yuan per kilogram, only 1/3 of the price in mid April, which was 9.2 yuan cheaper than the highest price of 14 yuan per kilogram last year. On the day of
, in the wholesale market of agricultural and sideline products in Weihai, the reporter saw many trucks laden with fresh garlic crowded with customers. A customer who is picking garlic tells a reporter that the new garlic is now 4 yuan per kilogram and 11 yuan per kilogram of garlic, because the price is cheap, and the garlic is better sold now. Another customer said that when garlic was the most expensive last August, the wholesale price per kilogram was 14 yuan. On the day of
, the reporter saw that the retail price of the new garlic was 7 yuan per kilogram in the Imperial Palace market. In the same period last year, the retail price of new garlic was 11.96 yuan per kilogram.
a vegetable seller told reporters that garlic in the Weihai market is now basically from the outside world. Because of the high garlic price last year, the growing area of the country has increased, and the output of garlic will increase a lot this year. Garlic prices will continue to fall as new garlic comes into the market in June. (Kong Junqiang)