Continuous heavy rain in Vietnam causes vegetable damage and a price increase

Continuous heavy rain in vegetable growing areas supplying Ho Chi Minh City causes the output and quality of green vegetables to decrease; there is a local shortage. As noted by the reporter of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper in recent days in the market of Ho Chi Minh City, green vegetables are not abundant, the design is not beautiful, especially leafy vegetables such as lettuce, dandelion and other types of vegetables. raw vegetables. Even in the supermarket system, although the staff has trimmed some of the damaged leaves, the vegetables are still crushed a lot. The reason is that these are vegetables grown outdoors, affected by continuous heavy rain in recent times. Particularly, vegetables grown in greenhouses have beautiful designs but higher prices. // Leafy vegetables such as morning glory, cabbage and amaranth have a retail price of about 30,000 - 40,000 VND/kg; salad 40,000 - 50,000 VND/kg; gourd, squash, melon from 25,000 to 30,000 VND/kg. The director of a business in Lam ...