Vegetable prices have remained quite high after the Chinese spring festival, the main cause is due to the abnormal weather last year, such as coldness, rains and snows. As the rainy weather continued, the vegetables didn't have sufficient sunshine. On the other hand, the wet soil led to the rotting of vegetable roots, which in the end resulted in the death of numerous vegetable sprouts.
Even within the vegetable greenhouses, the minimum temperature during the night was as low as minus 6 degrees, which makes the vegetables difficult to grow. In general, these bad weather condition resulted in low vegetable yields and were followed by the high retail prices.
However, as it is the normal marketing rule that vegetables are in short supply before the Spring Festival, many vegetable bases managed to seize the recent fine weather, and replace the frozen vegetables in the greenhouses while planting new ones. As a result, it is expected that this phenomenon will continue for a month or so, by when the new grown vegetables will gradually come to the market, and their prices will return to normal.
