Ningbo's emergency vegetable reserve covers over 10 days
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- Published: Monday, 09 January 2012 15:13
In order to guarantee the stable level of Ningbo's "vegetable basket", Ningbo Trade Bureau launched the emergency project to increase the vegetable reserve enough to cover 10 days.
On January 3, it is learned from Ningbo Aquatic Products Wholesale Market and Meat, Poultry & Eggs Wholesale Market, that there is a significant increase in the citizens' purchase of poultry and aquatic products during the New Year's Day holiday. To be specific, the daily transaction volume for the Aquatic Products Wholesale Market increased about 20%. In case of low temperature and extreme weather conditions, the "vegetable basket" will undergo great pressure from both the Spring Festival goods purchase and citizens' daily consumption. To prevent such situation, Ningbo Trade Bureau launched the emergency reserve plan on January 4. In accordance with the requirements for 10 days' consumption for citizens, the pig live stock will be increased to 120,000 heads, and the dynamic reserves for vegetables, aquatic products and raw materials for soy bean products will be increased to 5000 tons, 3000 tons and 1500 tons respectively. "Even if we may experience the sleet weather as we did last year, people will not have to worry about their food." said a related official from the Vegetable and Non-staple Food Division of Ningbo Trade Bureau. Starting from January 4, they will put the daily market monitoring system into operation to adjust the supply for the "vegetable basket" as necessary.
Besides the dynamic reserve, the commodity sourcing organization for main "vegetable basket" goods has also been carried out. It is learned from Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, related purchasers have returned to Ningbo from Hainan and some other cities within Zhejiang Province with purchase and sale contracts for over 2000 tons of season leafy vegetables. In addition, the live pig slaughter enterprises are also actively expanding their purchasing channel by improving purchasing volumes from Fujian Province and Jiangxi Province
