While price hikes for Apple products affects only fans of Smartphone and computer, recent increases in the prices of apples, the type of feed, has caused concern among more than a billion people in China.
Apples prices rose to an unprecedented high in late October, which has boosted the incomes of vases of the nation's Apple, but added the national consumer financial pressures as China's inflation rate recorded a record of 23 months high in September.
"Despite it being the season of harvest, the average purchase price of apples is increased from 1.6 yuan (approximately 24 US cents) at 2 Yuan to approximately 6.3 yuan to 6.6 yuan per kilogramme. This was rarely seen in my 30 years of experience in marketing at Apple," said Yu Zhaojiang, a merchant of fruit.
Yu operates a fruit of companies from Yantai, a port city in Shandong province of China Eastern, one of the nation's Apple main bases in commercial growth.
Retail prices for apples quality premium also reached 15 to 20 yuan per kilogram in supermarkets, in China's largest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
In fact, the data collected by Xinhua indicate that, at national level, retail prices of apples have increased more than 20% year-over-year as of 25 October.
Some low-income residents can no longer afford to buy apples, complained Yu Dayou, a citizen of the city of Jinan, the capital of Shandong province.
For a survey online measurement 23,622 people, launched by China of Sina.com.CN as well as portal that reported Sunday that 81.4% of respondents said soaring prices of apple led "significant effect" to their lives.
However, not all bad news since the highest prices were warmly greeted by Shandong Apple growers.
Income this year will be doubled thanks to soaring prices, said Yu Shiyong, a farmer from the village of Er ' jiacun in Yantai, was busy collecting apples to avoid potential losses the proposed cold weather looming .Yu plants 4 mu (about 0,27 acres) of apples, with permanent total output to 10,000 kg per year.
Gong Juncai, who plant 3 mu of apples in Weihai, another coastal town of Shandong, said that he'll Pocket 20,000 yuan in net income this year, up to at least 5,000 yuan compared to last year.
Additionally, revenues generated from growing apples in the Township of Yantai Guanshui are set to increase from 300 million yuan from 2009, said Dong Ruilin, Deputy Secretary of the Joint Committee Guanshui of Communist Party of China (CPC).
By Dong, Guanshui Township raked in 700 million yuan in fruit farming of last year.
Apple Resellers from around the country have also taken initiatives to replenish stocks.
Xu Hu, an official of the Administration for the wholesale market of Guanshui for fruits and vegetables in Muping of Yantai, noticed that twice the number of dealers apple apples market traded in September and October, compared to two months during the previous year, accordingly.
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