National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on October 27, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 27 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 191.41, up 0.85 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 190.31, up 0.82 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural wholesale market was 22.99 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 177.74), up 0.5% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.11 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Mutton was 46.98 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs were 7.71 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 14.75 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.13 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 178.66), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 4.82 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.00 yuan/kg, down 2.0% from yesterday;

Common carp was 12.40 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.08 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday; largehead hairtail was 29.13 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring in the domestic wholesale market, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: watermelon, rapeseed greens, garlic, carrot and onion, with increases of 5.0%, 3.1%, 2.8%, 2.6% and 1.9% respectively;

The top five price decreases were: pineapple, cauliflower, white radish, spinach and banana, with decreases of 4.3%, 2.9%, 2.6%, 2.4% and 2.3% respectively.