It really depends. A medium bell pepper is 198 yen now in my countryside area. The minimum hourly wage here is roughly 1000 yen of which maybe 20% goes to tax/insurance/pension. A stick of celary is that or more. On the other hand, cabbage is usually cheap.
Anything grown locally is cheap when it is in season. Transport costs, bad harvests, etc. can make anything expensive (due to weather and impacts of fuel costs, cabbages went to like 4x regular price last year and that’s the main green).
Anything imported, niche, and/or off-season is going to demand a high premium. My second job (starting this year) is as a small-scale veg farmer in rural north Japan.
It really depends. A medium bell pepper is 198 yen now in my countryside area. The minimum hourly wage here is roughly 1000 yen of which maybe 20% goes to tax/insurance/pension. A stick of celary is that or more. On the other hand, cabbage is usually cheap.
Anything grown locally is cheap when it is in season. Transport costs, bad harvests, etc. can make anything expensive (due to weather and impacts of fuel costs, cabbages went to like 4x regular price last year and that’s the main green).
Anything imported, niche, and/or off-season is going to demand a high premium. My second job (starting this year) is as a small-scale veg farmer in rural north Japan.