The price of Chinese vegetables has risen, but the wholesale price of the place of origin has dropped to nearly worthless.

(Bloomberg)

[Compilation of Wei Guojin/Taipei Report] The South China Morning Post reported that strict epidemic prevention and control measures are forcing desperate Chinese farmers to destroy crops by themselves because they cannot be transported and sold. food security.

According to Chinese media reports, farmers across China's provinces are struggling to sell their hard-earned crops due to local lockdowns and precautionary movement restrictions.

And farmers in some provinces, such as Henan, Gansu, Shandong and Hebei, have been forced to bulldoze their fields to level vegetables so they can plant seeds for the next crop.

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Chinese state-owned media reported that Ruzhou, Henan Province harvested a total of 3.5 million kilograms of green onions, nearly 1 million kilograms of spinach and 191 million kilograms of Shandong Chinese cabbage. Trucks cannot enter the city to collect vegetables.

The report also said that a farmer in Shandong had to level hundreds of thousands of kilograms of vegetables in the field because no one was harvesting them and transport them to the market for sale.

Chinese farmers describe that "vegetables want to leave the county, but it is difficult to go to the blue sky", because vegetable trucks entering the county from other places must report 3 days in advance, and local vegetable trucks going to other places, even if they have not passed through the epidemic risk area, they must stay at home after returning home Quarantine for 7 days.

"Farmers Daily" reported based on a survey of Beijing's Xinfadi market that from the end of October to the beginning of November, although the prices of vegetables in the hands of consumers were nearly 10% higher, the wholesale prices seen by farmers dropped to nearly worthless.

The market provides more than 90% of the fruits and vegetables in the capital.

Authorities in Beijing have urged local governments to relax some anti-epidemic measures to stabilize economic growth, but roadblocks have sprung up in many rural areas, limiting truck capacity.

Many vegetable farmers are considering reducing production next year to reduce losses. If they do reduce production, it will impact China's food security.

Last week, the Communist Party's People's Daily called on local governments to help farmers sell their crops, emphasizing the importance of maintaining smooth logistics.

The account "Xiakedao" under the Overseas Edition of "People's Daily" said, "Vegetables are rotten in the field. On the surface, it is a logistics obstruction, but in essence it is a problem of governance efficiency." The article said that in order to solve the problem, the superior should let the subordinate have control , so as not to increase the scale at all levels and over-prevent the epidemic, "only by giving grass-roots cadres moderate empowerment and reasonable exemption from responsibility can the grass-roots officers be less burdened."

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