Changes in product structure and reduction in turnover in large scale farm produce wholesale markets from January to September, 2018

By CnAgri2018-10-25 10:28:41 Print Calculated on the weekly sales of major agricultural product wholesale markets, the sales volume of edible agricultural products was 2.35 million tons in September, down 1.96% year-on-year. The cumulative sales volume of farm produce in major wholesale markets from January to September 2018 came to 20.53 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 7.49%.
As for the sales of main products in September, the sales volumes of vegetables, fruits, grains, animal products, aquatic products, and other products were 1.79 million tons, 340,000 tons, 74,300 tons, 85,300 tons, 57,900 tons, and 3200 tons respectively. On the month-on-month basis, the sales volumes of grains, vegetables, animal products, and aquatic products increased by 2.20%, 3.20%, 22.04%, and 45.17% respectively, and fruits and other products fell by 24.73% and 88.77% in sales volume. From the perspective of consumption structure, vegetables, fruits, animal products, grains, aquatic products, and other products respectively accounted for 76.15%, 14.47%, 3.62%, 3.16%, 2.46%, and 0.16% of the total sales volume. Compared with sales proportions in the last year, the percentages of fruits and other products fell by 4.38% and 1.07%; and the shares of vegetables, aquatic products, animal products, and grains rose by 3.81%, 0.80%, 0.71%, and 0.13% separately.
In terms of cumulative consumptions of main products from January to September 2018, the consumptions of grains, aquatic products, and animal products were  729,000 tons, 418,000 tons, and 929,000 tons, increasing by 16.46%, 20.48%, and 4.37% from the year before; the sales volumes of vegetables, fruits, and other products respectively reached 15.19 million tons, 3.34 million tons, and 128,000 tons, decreasing by 5.65%, 17.92%, and 67.71% year-on-year. From the perspective of sales structure, vegetables, fruits, animal products, grains, aquatic products, and other products accounted for 73.99%, 16.25%, 3.55%, 3.55%, and 2.04% respectively.
As for changes in sales proportions, the percentages of vegetables, grains, animal products, and aquatic products increased by 1.42%, 0.81%, 0.73%, and 0.23% respectively, and the shares of fruits and other products fell by 2.06% and 1.13% respectively.