During the spring ploughing season, spring vegetables are growing vigorously in the fields of Shanghai. Early this morning, in the dingdong vegetable buying self operated vegetable planting base in Langxia Town, Jinshan, Shanghai, more than 40 workers were busy transplanting vegetables, while others were harvesting all kinds of green leafy vegetables such as Shanghai green, Hangzhou cabbage and lettuce. After sorting and packaging, these vegetables are quickly sent to the front warehouse distributed near each community through the whole cold chain. Citizens at the other end pick up their mobile phones at home and place orders, and the watery vegetables can be delivered to the door.
Ding Dong’s own farm under Jinshan corridor has an area of 800 mu, which has been planted according to the designated categories according to the market gap, mainly including Shanghai green, Hangzhou cabbage, lettuce, celery and other green leafy vegetables. “Spring is a good time for vegetables to grow. Chicken feather vegetables can be put on the table in 20 days at the fastest, and green vegetables can mature in about 30 days.” Sun Guoqiang, the person in charge of dingdong shopping Jiangsu Nonghua Intelligent Agriculture Technology Co.Ltd(000816) Park, introduced that at present, the farm can produce 10000 vegetables a day and is still growing, so as to ensure the vegetable supply of Shanghai citizens and stabilize the market price
Due to the impact of the epidemic, Ding Dong’s orders for vegetables have increased by more than 50% recently, and the single day orders of some sites have doubled. Among them, the supply of key livelihood Protection commodities such as vegetables, meat, eggs and milk increased by more than 100%. In the past two days, the supply of vegetables has increased from more than 600 tons to more than 1000 tons per day, meat, egg and milk from 400 tons to 700 tons per day, and rice flour grain and oil from 120 tons to 300 tons. And it is still growing.
In addition to picking vegetables from its own farms, Ding Dong buys dozens of food processing plants, including Kwai Tung, meat processing plants and bean processing plants, to supply meat, flour and fast food products to consumers.
The reporter saw on the dingdong shopping app that the prices of some vegetables with large daily consumption are stable: spinach 6.99 yuan per kilogram, broccoli 5.9 yuan per kilogram, lettuce 6.45 yuan per kilogram, carrot 2.99 yuan per kilogram… In addition, there are meat, poultry and eggs, aquatic seafood, quick-frozen food, etc.
In order to cope with the next demand peak, the special group of dingdong vegetable purchase and supply guarantee has increased the stock planning of vegetables, meat, eggs and milk through the algorithm and the feedback of the user service center, and supplemented the transportation capacity at the same time.
