Why did the price of agricultural products skyrocket? Many people attribute the reasons to various disaster factors caused by abnormal weather, and some analysts believe that it is the inevitable result of inadequate supervision, and some analysts believe that there is "obstruction" in the circulation of agricultural products. It should be said that these analyses are not unreasonable, but from a deeper perspective, some non-market factors are actually playing a leading role behind the irrational rise in agricultural product prices.
It can be seen from a lot of information in the market that some hot money withdrawn from the real estate market has begun to intervene in the agricultural product market. And these hot money are not only some domestic private capital, but also some international "speculators". It is reported that nearly one trillion yuan of hot money is currently attacking the cost and pushing up the price of agricultural products in China, and many of these speculators are "hot money" that have already entered the country. These "hot money" that have been "lurking" for a long time by betting on the appreciation of the RMB take advantage of the "transition period" when the RMB has not appreciated, and push up the market by creating the concept of natural disasters brought about by abnormal weather. There are many indications that overseas hot money is keen on speculating China's agricultural products, which not only makes rich profits, but also hides the purpose of controlling the relevant industrial chain of agricultural products in China. Their method is to buy or participate in some domestic agricultural products enterprises with capital first, and then push up the price in the domestic agricultural products futures market.
In addition, from the perspective of other factors that affect the price increase of agricultural products, except the limited increase of labor price is a reasonable factor, the rest include interest rate level, means of production, prices of basic products such as water, electricity and oil, and changes in government taxes and fees. And there are some non-market factors in the price increase of agricultural products. Therefore, as government departments, especially some price management departments, we should pay attention to these non-market factors in the price fluctuation of agricultural products and take measures to "make up" in price management. Otherwise, the people's "food basket" will be "empty", which is really a sad thing.