September 8, 2015 "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 8 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 213.14, down 0.29 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 216.37, down 0.07 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural wholesale markets was 24.69 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 185.91), up 0.2% from yesterday;

Beef 54.24 yuan/kg, basically flat compared with yesterday;

Mutton 47.31 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 9.23 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.31 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.78 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 246.47), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.12 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.17 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.01 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.12 yuan/kg, up 4.2% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.00 yuan/kg, down 2.1% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring at domestic wholesale markets, the top five in terms of price increase compared with yesterday were: pumpkin, winter melon, silver carp, eggplant and white radish, with increases of 5.4%, 4.7%, 4.2%, 3.5% and 2.7% respectively; the top five in terms of price decrease were: Ya pear, Chinese chives, largehead hairtail, scallion and shiitake mushroom, with decreases of 4.4%, 2.3%, 2.1%, 2.0% and 1.9% respectively.