National supply of mutton meat shortage in Xuzhou staged "Grab the Sheep"

Yesterday, the reporter learned from the city's largest wholesale and distribution center of mutton - City Hequn bridge archway food wholesale market, recently, with the shortage of supply of the national mutton market, Huaibei, Handan, Lianyungang and many other foreign wholesalers to the city to buy mutton.

In order to guarantee the supply of mutton during the Spring Festival for the public on New Year's Day, the wholesale market has organized traders to go to Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and other places to organize the supply.

Foreign wholesalers came to Xu to "grab" mutton. Yesterday, reporters saw that in the wholesale and distribution center of mutton, not only were small urban traders riding tricycles to sell mutton but also large trucks with foreign licenses such as Lianyungang, Suqian, Huaibei and Handan. To wholesale lamb.

According to the owner of the scene, Wang said that this year's mutton market is better than last year, and more than 20 tons of mutton are shipped every day. “Now it is almost local vendors who sell mutton every morning. They are mostly customers from outside Hong Kong in the afternoon and in the afternoon. Although the price of mutton keeps rising, the supply is still very tight.” said the owner of the wholesale megastore Wang told reporters last year that this During the period of the mutton market was not good, some large wholesalers stored a batch of fresh mutton, the results are all off the money, so now many large households do not store fresh mutton, and now the goods shipped are fresh lamb, there is no frozen lamb.

“There are a lot of mutton coming today, so the wholesale price of mutton fell slightly in the afternoon. The goat meat is wholesale to 21.5 yuan/jin, and the sheep meat is sold at 19.8 yuan/jin.” said one boss of the wholesale market, saying that the mutton yesterday morning The wholesale price is still high, the wholesale price of goat meat is 22 yuan/kg, and the wholesale price of sheep meat is 20 yuan/kg. "A lot of small, tender meat was taken away by the city's traders. Some big lambs were snatched away by wholesale customers in the afternoon." The owner said that he had contacted Baotou, Inner Mongolia this year. There are more than 10 large-scale slaughterhouses in Dalian, Hebei Langfang and other areas, with a total of more than 200 tons of mutton. The high-quality lamb in these areas can reach Xuzhou in the fastest 12 hours to meet the festival consumer demand.

Organize the sources of goods in advance so that the public can eat cheap mutton. “Now the supply of lamb is very tight all over the country. The number of local live sheep in Xuzhou is very small. The vast majority of lamb on the market comes from Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and Hebei.” The person in charge of the wholesale market told reporters.

It is understood that with the approaching New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, the city’s mutton needs are very large. Every day in addition to satisfying the public’s consumer needs, we must also provide townships in and around Xuzhou, Anhui, Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Huai’an, and Lianyungang. Therefore, lamb is very tight. In order to allow the public to enjoy good quality and cheap mutton during the festival, the wholesale market has arranged for some large wholesalers and market workers to organize supply from Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Hebei and other places to stabilize the market price of lamb. To ensure that the public eat cheap mutton.