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Prosperous market with stable prices during the Festival
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:10
The light snow of the Chinese New Year's Eve made little impact on the vegetable supply during the Festival. On January 23, with the weather turning clear, wholesalers from all over the country poured in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, and the total transaction of vegetables reached over 1380 tons, an increase of 7.3% over the same period last year. Of over one hundred varieties of vegetables, only three to four kinds rose in price while others all maintained the same price level as before the Festival.
Although it is the Spring Festival, there are still lots of citizens purchasing vegetables in supermarkets. In the Jiangdong shop of CRV supermarket, the prices of such vegetables as broccoli, celery, cabbage and radish remain the same as days before, and some vegetables are even on membership sale. According to a person in charge of the supermarket, they have reserved about ten kinds of vegetables, including 15 tons of broccoli, 15 tons of bamboo shoots and 10 tons of celery, which not only ensures the adequate supply of vegetables during the Spring Festival period but also guarantees the same price level as that before the festival.
On the noon of January 23, in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, large trucks loaded with vegetables and purchasing tricycles and pickups can be seen now and then. A person in charge of the purchasing department of Sanjiang Supermarket said that their purchase had completed two days before. But considering the citizens' need for fresh vegetables would surely increase after January 25, they were making further reservations these two days as the weather was fine. It is learned that on January 23, the total transaction of vegetables of the wholesale market reached over 1380 tons and there were about 100 kinds of vegetables involved, both increased slightly compared with the same period last year.
"Since one week ago before the festival, we have completed the 5000 tons of dynamic reserve of vegetables, which can guarantee one week's need of the public." said a person in charge of the transaction sector of the wholesale market.
Apart from the vegetables, the wholesale for the meat and poultry and the aquatic products decreased by about 15%. According to a related person, that is because the demand for these two kinds of products is small as the consumers have made adequate purchase before the festival, and it is estimated that the demand will return to the normal after the Lantern Festival
