August 24, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 24 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 213.93, down 0.92 points from last Friday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 216.93, down 1.43 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 24.61 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 184.60), up 0.6% from last Friday;

Beef 53.66 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday;

Mutton 48.00 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Eggs 9.00 yuan/kg, up 2.2% from last Friday; dressed chicken 14.79 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.86 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 246.45), down 1.0% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.29 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.09 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from last Friday;

Common carp 13.15 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.22 yuan/kg, up 2.1% from last Friday;

Large hairtail 27.87 yuan/kg, down 2.3% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: tomatoes, winter melon, eggs, silver carp and carrots, with increases of 2.9%, 2.8%, 2.2%, 2.1% and 2.0% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese chives, cabbage, lettuce, large yellow croaker and eggplant, with decreases of 5.2%, 4.2%, 4.0%, 3.9% and 3.7% respectively.