The wholesale price of garlic surged more than 10 fold from a year earlier to about 12.2 yuan per kg at the end of April, while the average price of vegetables surged about 25 percent from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

However, some dealers said they were not worried about sales of mung beans in summer, but as they did profit much from the business and were facing increasing risks, they wanted to sell fast by cutting prices, the paper reported, adding that there has already been a slight drop in the wholesale prices of mung beans.