Rising fruit prices

"Everybody can't even afford to eat fruit." Ms. Yang, who lives on Bayi Road, is a fruit control, basically every day to ensure that eating an apple, but an apple will have to spend three or four dollars, making her feel a little extravagant. Turning to oranges, "I didn't expect that the orange is now almost 4 dollars a pound."

Yesterday, the market monitoring system for daily necessities of Hubei Province showed that the eight main types of daily necessities monitored last week (December 16-December 22), except for a small drop in egg prices, fruits, grain, drummed edible oil, pork, etc. All seven categories of prices rose slightly. Among them, the price of fruits rose most noticeably, up by 10.79% month-on-month, oranges, oranges, and bananas rose by a large margin. The price of oranges rose from 4.87 yuan per kilogram in the previous week to 6.97 yuan per kilogram in the previous week, a year-on-year increase of 43.12%.

According to an analysis by Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce, this winter in Wuhan, the weather is relatively dry, and the public’s demand for fruit is rising. It is expected that as the weather cools later, demand will decline, and fruit prices will also enter the shock period.