Drought causing vegetables prices to increase in Yunnan

[Titi]

The dry weather continues, the people can still buy the varied vegetables in the market but the prices increase significantly. The retail price of cabbage drop by more than 50% before spring festival, before the spring festival is around 1.5yuan/kg, now is 3yuan/kg.

Like every dry season in previous years, leafy vegetables are most affected. From January to March, the prices of vegetables such as potatoes, garlic, cucumber, lotus root, the price has been in an upward trend, but the magnitude is not obvious, in a range of plus or minus 0.5yuan/kg, but the price of leafy vegetables such as cabbage, kucai, spinach increase a lot. For example, January 6, the wholesale price of lettuce is 2.30 yuan/kg, and on March 7 the price jump to 7.00 yuan/kg.