Changes in the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index on September 9, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 9 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 212.51, down 0.63 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 215.59, down 0.78 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural wholesale market was 24.70 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 185.91), basically flat compared with yesterday;

Beef was 54.12 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton was 47.14 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Eggs were 9.22 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.32 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.77 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 244.94), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.09 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.94 yuan/kg, down 1.5% from yesterday;

Common carp was 12.97 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.05 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 28.00 yuan/kg, flat compared with yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties in the key monitoring of the domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale market, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: rapeseed (yu choy), oyster mushroom, onion, shiitake mushroom and pineapple, with increases of 2.3%, 2.1%, 1.9%, 1.1% and 1.0% respectively; the top five price decreases were: celery, pumpkin, spinach, cauliflower and white radish, with decreases of 2.7%, 2.3%, 2.2%, 2.0% and 2.0% respectively.