Shannong says garlic has cost more than 20 years of planting shrinkage or a major cause.

Sino-New Society issued Liu Junfeng qi May 12: "Garlic expensive pork": Shannong said 20 years in the middle of the plant shrinkage or the main reason for the new reporter Zhao Li Zhiquan "garlic You ruthless" is the current popular in China a fashionable language, which is the result of some supermarkets and the market of garlic crazy rose more than 100 times times, even more expensive than meat,　　More expensive than eggs, more expensive than cabbage.　　In recent days, the Chinese and new social journalists in Henan Zoucunchuanhu, in-depth field, interview vegetable growers, export companies, exporters and supermarkets, and so on, investigating the "crazy garlic" how expensive pork?　　Garlic expensive pork Shannong not know who lives in Zhengzhou Agricultural Road, Ms. Lou in a supermarket bought 5 garlic, spent 5.5 yuan. "A garlic over a dollar, it's too expensive!"　　She took the garlic in her hand for a long time, a little hesitant to buy or not.　　This supermarket's garlic price is 19 yuan per kilogram, but the pork hind leg meat price is 6.98 yuan/500g, a catty pork to spell but a catty garlic's strange thing to happen. "Does garlic cost more than pork?"　　"To this, Henan province Kaifeng qi ge gang town Shannong Ho Junchen a face of vacant, do not know." GE Gang Town is the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture identified garlic planting base, and Qi is also "Township of garlic." In Ho Junchen's memory, it was the first time that garlic had been planted since 1984, "one time in more than 20 years."　　"Garlic soared or produced tens of millions of billionaires and Ho Junchen, when the reporter to the" Supermarket garlic price for more than 10 yuan per kilogram of information brought to them, the villagers here first a leng and then all smiled bloom. "Cheap garlic one or two cents, white send no one want Ah!" "A pack of cigarettes can be exchanged for a bag of garlic when the garlic is cheap," said Shannong, surnamed Chen.　　Chen said that the village now acquisition price of 4 yuan per kilogram.　　Even more to Shannong joy is, garlic is still long in the ground, was all over the early acquisition of merchants. QI Garlic Planting area of 400,000 acres, production of about 600,000 tons.　　The county's agricultural office officials said that there are now more than 30,000 acres of garlic has not been harvested by foreign merchants in advance acquisition, Shannong has been accounted for more than 100 million yuan.　　In this respect, Qi County party committee propaganda minister Wang Qingzhi said, some garlic traders in 2007 to 2008 garlic prices plummeted when the stock of garlic, conservative estimates, this will be the birth of many millionaires.　　Garlic planting area in China sharply reduced 30% the latest market shows that China garlic wholesale price reached 9000-9200 yuan per ton, export price of more than 10,000 yuan per ton. "Small area is a key factor in rising.　　"In Henan easy to import and export trading company manager Zhang Guangyu View, due to the 2006 garlic Price increase stimulation, 2007, 2008 National Garlic Planting Area blind expansion, garlic plunged to 0.4 yuan per kg, market wholesale price fell to 0.1-0.2 yuan per kg, Shannong, dealers lost heavy." Zhang Guangyu said that in this case, the 2009 National Garlic planting area from 2008 of 12.5 million acres reduced to 9 million mu, "A sudden reduction of more than 30%, garlic price can not high? He said that as the international economic situation improved, the increase in exports is also a reason to induce garlic prices, "but the so-called" swine flu and other factors have little impact. "Fried garlic is like speculation futures" recently, some businessmen have been in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and other Chinese garlic main producing large contract cold storage, harvest garlic.　　Even in Western Asia, Western Europe and other countries, middlemen also came to "join the fun." "We can't leave garlic for every meal!"　　"Basili, a middleman from Africa in Senegal, told the New China News agency that people in his area liked Chinese garlic, and they were still prepared to import 1000 tonnes of Qi garlic, even though they knew the price was expensive this year."　　In response to the phenomenon of garlic price madness, China Agricultural University agricultural products circulation and Marketing Research Center director An Yufa said that the circulation of capital to garlic origin harvest garlic, surprise drying and a large number of hoarding, artificial intervention in the price of the behavior is there, it is worth vigilance. China Vegetable Circulation Association president Daichongju said, at present in some parts of China "fried garlic like speculation futures" phenomenon is not normal, will eventually damage Shannong and consumer interests. Finish)