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"bought more than half a small watermelon actually spent more than 20 dollars, also not taste the taste to eat no more. "" This is where? Cherry Pearl just listed were sold to 258 Yuan a catty! ”…… In May, the weather gradually pick up, various seasonal fruit begin the Qingdao people's horizons and high price became members of the public were the focus of discussion. Yesterday, reporters visited understands that high liangsancheng fruit prices this year over the same period last year, mainly listing later, low yields, the impact of rising transportation costs. According to industry expected late this month, local fruit of the season to a large number of listed, when overall prices expected to fall back. $

5 fruit market is hard to find

boss operating in Dalian road fruit stalls has been nearly 10 years, fruit prices were high and he surprised this year. "Two kinds of fruit is not a high price, but the generally high, full market not less than $ 5 a pound of fruit. "Boss pointed to dozens of fruit said, even the lowest sweet Po melon, watermelon, apples are close to $ 5, the remaining strawberry, mango, peach, almond, apricot, cherry, fruit prices are at around 10 Yuan/kg.

boss complained that this will also be strawberries when a large number of listed in previous years, $ 5/kg of quality is quite good, but $ 5 this year was a "starting price", appearance, taste good on $ 10 a pound, large price increases is the direct consequence of falling sales. "You see on my assessment, what fruit is a small heap of a small mass, cannot sell it hit your hands, it would lose big. "The boss says, 30% decline in sales over the same period last year, more than this year, many old customers can buy two pounds of strawberries a day, has modified this year to buy a pound, some customers will also reduce purchase frequency. "Different fruits and vegetables, your members do not eat or eat less. "

cherry Pearl 258 pound

from the farmers ' market went into a supermarket in Eastern, fruit prices are high and makes people speechless. A box of pound load of Yantai cherry Pearl had the highest sold $ 258, ordinary plastic box is sold to 78 dollars a pound, than fresh cucumber prices are high. Then look at look at other fruits, Apple in Shaanxi Province and is the most cheap domestic papaya, for $ 4.95/kg, the remaining strawberry, mango, peach, almond, peaches, grapes and other fruits, ranging from 8.8 to $ 38 per kg price. Even the quality of Red Fuji Apple is selling $ 8 a pound.

imported fruits worth more. "I like to eat bamboo, only 12 Yuan/kg last year, 25.8 Yuan/kg, has more than doubled. "Look at an array of imported fruits, Ms WONG took up a mountain bamboo smell, but after going through price and down. Ms Wong turn in a circle found in the supermarket, now even the banana in the Philippines are sold in $ 7 a pound, is not really ordinary consumers to spend.

low cost rises push up the price of

"does high price of fruit this year, the overall wholesale price is higher than last year at least 0.5 Yuan/kg, some varieties to high more than $ 1/kg, fruit imports rose more. "Good fruit wholesale market of Qingdao City Manager told reporters that this year cheap seasonal fruits like pineapple, minimum wholesale price from the original $ 0.5/kg up to 1.5 Yuan/kg, Strawberry wholesale price was stable at 6 Yuan/kg or more. This analysis that good managers, high fruit prices are caused by multiple factors. First, not high temperatures in the spring of this year, seasonal fruit mature relatively late, so a large listing of time has been postponed. At present, the market is also dominated by-season greenhouse fruits, natural high prices and, secondly, climate and other factors lead to drop in some varieties of production, such as climate impacts Thailand fruits large area production, reduction in strawberries grown in the province; in addition, transportation costs, labor costs, packaging costs rose sharply, also pushed prices higher. Now, transported a load of fruits from Guangzhou to blue, and cost up to tens of dollars, plus a long loss, price is not high.

good manager said late this month, local seasonal fruits such as cherries, nectarines are a large number of listed, to fruit when overall prices were expected to drop, but have fallen to the level of previous years is unlikely.