Author(s)

Fantao Kong, Mengshuai Zhu, Jing Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Jianzhai Wu

Corresponding Author

Jianzhai Wu

ABSTRACT

Vegetable industry, as an important source of income for rural residents in China, is not only related to the actual income of farmers, but also to the living standards of city residents. It is an important part of China’s rural economy. In recent years, the vegetable industry has shown obvious comparative advantages in the process of structural reform on the agricultural supply side, storming of the uphill part of alleviating poverty and promoting the implementation of the Rural Revitalization strategy, so the vegetable planting area in many areas has been significantly increased. The rise of labor costs has also boosted the planting area of vegetable production, which is regarded as saving labor. Vegetable regional and structural differences between supply and demand are big, and long-distance trans-regional transportation leads to increased circulation costs and market fluctuation risks. On this basis, it is proposed to continue to improve the mechanism and informatization level of vegetable industry, strengthen the building of vegetable production capacity, improve vegetable commercialization treatment, and promote standardization of in-field market. Such counter-measures as stable planting and supply regulation, strengthening building of "vegetable-basket project", improving the dietary and nutritional structure of urban and rural residents, and promoting the upgrading of vegetable consumptions, etc. are hereby suggested, in all efforts to remove any possible violent fluctuation of vegetable prices.

KEYWORDS

Vegetables; price fluctuation; planting expansion; cost