Chinanews, Beijing, January, 5 – New Year's Day and the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) are usually peak season for vegetables and fruits in China. But 2007 is different.

 

Our reporter finds in Guangdong that though the prices of vegetables are dropping everyday, still they are sold sluggishly. There are piles of green peppers left to rot in the gutters.

 

“The price of peppers was 3.4 yuan per kg in 2005,but it is only 0.4 yuan now, and still we have to dump these peppers into gutters,”said a farmer.

 

The spinach in Shandong Province is also facing the slack season, its average price being only 1/3 of the figure in 2005.

 

In fact, similar cases can be found nearly all over China, making it hard for the farmers to make ends meet.