The 9th China Shouguang International Vegetable Technology Expo was in procession. The expo would last for 30 days. There were over 300 items of new technologies displayed with more than ten thousand audiences every day.

According to the chairman of Shouguang Municipality, the focus of vegetable expo this year was new technology. More than 3000 domestic and foreign companies and over ten thousand of visitors attended the expo. There were more 2000 booths which cover seedling technology, equipment, agricultural products, processed and high technology products. The expo can be deemed as an vegetable Olympics.

According to Liuzhonghui, cultivation industry is always a soft spot for Chinese vegetable industry. Shouguang has endeavored to develop more vegetable varieties to achieve breakthrough. China Agricultural University Shouguang Vegetable Research Institute has invested RMB12 million yuan to build a lab of 4000 square meters and 8.7 hectares of vegetable experiment bases. Based on 150 varieties of vegetables, two varieties of tomato, two varieties of watermelon, one kind of hot pepper, bell pepper and sweet melon were chosen to be further researched on. Those picked produce will soon enter the stage of promotion.

Shouguang has the first agricultural produce electronic trading and logistic center. Annual transaction volume has reached 3 billion yuan. It also built the first online vegetable trading platform in China, and the sales volume has exceeded 20 billion yuan. It has built network with agricultural produce market, government and state-owned enterprise in more than 50 cities in 30 provinces to directly supply vegetables. It also extended its sales channel to more than ten countries.

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Monthly Insight 5

The Price of Asparagus Plummeted Overstock Asparagus Was Calling for Help 5

News Flash 6

“Vegetable Olympics” Servers the Great Opportunity to Promote Agriculture Modernization 6

Policy 7

Quality and Inspection System Ensures Sufficient Vegetable Supply for Hong Kong and Macaw Market 7

Weather 8

Sixty Hectares of Watermelon Base Were Hit by Hail in Beijing Daxing County 8

Production 9

Shenliu Vegetable will Come to the Market Price doubled 10

Price Trend 10

Price of Vegetables 11

The Price of Fruits 11

Constant Rain Caused Price Increase in Vegetables in Zhejiang 12

The Procurement Price of Litchi doubled From the Same Period last Year. Farmers Reduced Yield but Still kept the Momentum of Procurement 12

Consumption 13

Market View 14

Electronic Monitoring Technology Has Been Applied to Fruit Wholesaling in Guangdong Huizhou 14

Import and Export 15

Export 15

Import 17

Japan Reduced Volume of Importing Vegetables from China by Half in May 18

International View 19

U.S. Calling Off the Orders of Tomatoes From Mexico 19

Fruits from Thailand Will Serve Olympic Game 20

California Pistachio is Aiming at China Market 20

Attached Figures 22

About BOABC 28