Southwest drought has pushed up the national rice price, but now it has little impact on Ji'nan.
since the second half of last year, the price of rice in Ji'nan has gone up one round and Ji'nan citizens prefer northeast rice, and the demand for Southwest rice is smaller
in recent days, the sales of rice in provincial capital supermarkets have increased a lot. (reporter Wang Fuxiao photo)
Wang Fuxiao
the drought in the southwest of China has caused the local grain production to be affected, and the price of rice has risen in Shanghai, Chongqing and other places. Where does the rice from the provincial market come from? Can the drought affect the "rice bag" of the people? On the 23 day, the reporter visited the provincial part of the food and oil wholesale market found that the Ji'nan market rice mainly from the northeast and the local, the supply of goods, the drought in the southwest will not affect us temporarily.
the price of Ji'nan has risen more than 40% in 9 months. After the Spring Festival, it has fluctuated less than
23. The reporter learned from the seven Li grain and oil wholesale market that most of the rice on the market is northeast rice. The price of rice is up to 100 yuan from 95 yuan to 100 yuan, and 10 kg of bags of rice rose from 48 yuan to 5 before the Spring Festival. 0 yuan, from 1.6 yuan to 1.8 yuan per kilogram of bulk rice.
in Wangdian grain and oil wholesale market, Wang boss, who has been in charge of grain wholesale business for many years, told reporters that the price of rice has been rising frequently since the second half of last year. From the retail price, the original 1.7 yuan can buy a catty of good quality rice, to spend 2.2 yuan before the Spring Festival this year, and now the price of 2.5 yuan / Jin is the main price of the northeast rice on the market.
the reporter visited four farmers' markets near the provincial capital, Yanshan District, Shan Shi Dong Road, building new village and chessboard district. The retail price of rice was 2.4 yuan / Jin, 2.3 yuan / Jin, 2.5 yuan / Jin, 2.5 yuan per Jin, which were two or three cents more than before the Spring Festival. Compared with the farmers' market, the rice in the supermarket is relatively cheap, especially some rice from Tancheng and Ji'nan counties in Linyi. The price is much cheaper. At noon on 23, the reporter saw in a large supermarket on the calendar mountain road, the price of the Yellow River rice in ordinary bulk was 1.89 yuan / Jin, while the Northeast long grain rice was 2.53 yuan / Jin, and the price difference was relatively large.
the purchase price has risen, the planting area is less, so the price of rice in Ji'nan has risen by
for the fluctuation of the price of rice in Ji'nan, many people associate with the drought in the southwest. In fact, this is just a psychological link.
Chen Guo, a researcher at the Crop Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that most of the rice on the Shandong market is local rice and northeast rice. The grain is long circular, translucent and sticky, suitable for cooking or cooking porridge. The rice produced in the south is sticky and tastes poor, which is not in line with the tastes of Shandong people. Therefore, there is hardly any rice from Southwest China. "Jinan people like to eat northeast rice, in fact, is a kind of Japonica rice, northeast rice a year ripe, good taste."
talking about the fluctuation of the price of rice, Zhang Zhiqiang, director of the price monitoring center of the Ji'nan Price Bureau, said that the rising price of rice is a normal market phenomenon. If the reason is further investigated, one is that the country has raised the purchase price, plus the reduction in the area of the japonica rice last year, which has led to the decrease in production and the rise in prices; the other is that the demand for japonica rice is strong and the sales are good.
if the grain is transferred from the whole country to the south of the west, the price of rice is estimated to rise by
although the southwest region is not the main grain producing area in China, but the continuous drought since July 2009 has brought the price of rice price to all parts of the country. According to media reports, there has been a rise in rice prices in Shanghai and Chongqing. Although the city's market has little volatility in the near future, "if the drought continues, the agricultural production in the southwest and western provinces will be greatly affected, and may even affect the price trend in the second half of the year." Chen Shuwei, chief analyst of the eastern Agribusiness Consulting Company, said.
Ma Wenfeng, an analyst at the East agribusiness consultancy, said that it is now in the period of early rice sowing, and the continuous drought has seriously affected the sowing of rice in the southwest. "Drought is bound to result in the reduction of local rations, which is a great blow to the local grain market in Yunnan and Guangxi." Ma Wenfeng said, "the grain in the southwest arid area is not enough to eat, so it is necessary to transfer grain from other parts of the country, which may become an incentive for the national rice price increase."