Quantities increased while prices dropped for festival food basket
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:13
For the first three days of the Spring Festival period, despite the bad weather condition, the festival food basket maintained a smooth transportation, and the sales increased while prices dropped.
On the morning of January 25, there is a busy scene in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market. Suburban vegetable farmers from Jiangbei District and Zhenhai District brought in such seasonal vegetables as green vegetables, spinach and lettuce. Meanwhile, over 100 tons of such vegetables as lamp pepper, bean, leek, pea and aubergine, are also carried to the market by trunks from places outside Ningbo. According to statistics, the turnover of the vegetable wholesales amounted to 283 tons on January 25, increased by 1.8 times compared with the day before. And the average wholesale price for vegetables is 3.63 yuan per kilo, down by 25.6% over the day before and down by 2.9% over the same period last year.
In Ningbo Aquatic Products Market, the seafood from the East Sea arrived before the Spring Festival Eve and the frozen fish stock become the main products. Besides the local aquatic products, such as hairtail, pomfret, eel, swimming crab, little clubs fish, small yellow croaker, sepia and squid, imported salmon, tuna, squid and pomfret, etc. from Norway, the United States and Japan can also be seen in the market. According to statistics, since the Spring Festival Eve, the turnover of aquatic products has reached 580 tons. The average wholesale price on the 25th is 28.37 yuan per kilo, down by 13.4% over the period before the festival.
Since the Spring Festival Eve, the total sale of pork reached 225 tons in the urban district, an increase of 3.1% over the same period last year. The average wholesale price of pork on the 25th is 23.73 yuan per kilo, down by 0.9% over the period before the festival. In Ningbo Meat, Poultry and Egg Wholesale Market, about 330,000 live chickens were sold, an increase of 85% over the same period last year, while the sale of eggs reached 222 tons, almost the same as that of last year. The wholesale price for live chicken and egg are 13.18 yuan per kilo and 7.48 yuan per kilo respectively, down by 3.7% and 20.3% respectively over the same period last year.
