長雨で野菜値上がり　キュウリ、ネギの卸値は倍

　キュウリやネギ、レタスなどの野菜が値上がりしている。全国的な長雨や日照不足で、生育や出荷に影響が出た。キュウリや葉もののレタスは雨の影響を受けやすい。長雨の影響は価格に十分織り込まれたとは言えず、価格上昇の余地があり、家計にとって痛手となりそうだ。
　東京都中央卸売市場の週間市況（１３～１９日）によると、１キロ当たりの価格は、福島県産キュウリが前週比２．１倍の３８１円、茨城県産ネギは１．９倍の３５６円、長野県産レタスは１．８倍の２３４円といずれも高騰した。
　小売価格も上昇しており、農林水産省が公表した食品スーパーなどでの１６～１８日の小売価格動向（全国平均、１キロ当たり）では、キュウリが２１％高の５５７円、レタスが６％高の４２２円、ネギは２％高の７６４円だった。（2021/08/25-19:15）

Prices of vegetables such as cucumbers, leeks, and lettuce are rising in Japan as protracted rainfall and a lack of sunshine nationwide affected their growth and shipments.
   Cucumbers and lettuce are susceptible to rain. The impact of the long rainfall has not been fully factored into prices, and there is room for further price increases, which could hurt households, sources said.
   The price of cucumbers grown in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, jumped 2.1-fold from the previous week to 381 yen per kilogram at the Tokyo central wholesale market Aug. 13-19. The prices of leeks from the eastern prefecture of Ibaraki and lettuce from the central prefecture of Nagano rose by 1.9-fold to 356 yen and by 1.8-fold to 234 yen, respectively.
   Retail prices also went up across the country, with cucumbers selling at 557 yen per kilogram Aug. 16-18, up 21 pct from a week before, leeks 422 yen, up 6 pct, and lettuce 764 yen, up 2 pct, according to the agriculture ministry.
   According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, temperatures in Japan will be average or higher in the next two weeks. An agriculture ministry official predicted that vegetable prices will fall to levels before the recent surge if the weather stabilizes.