Rise and Fall of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on August 20, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 20 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 214.36, up 0.23 points from yesterday, among which the “Basket of Vegetables” Products Wholesale Price Index was 217.72, up 0.36 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 24.45 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 184.70), down 0.7% from yesterday;

Beef 53.80 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 48.05 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.68 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.92 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.90 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 247.18), up 1.0% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.30 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.77 yuan/kg, down 1.7% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.01 yuan/kg, down 2.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.10 yuan/kg, down 1.8% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.43 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five in price increase compared with yesterday were: spinach, oyster mushroom, tomato, cowpea and zucchini, with increases of 4.5%, 3.4%, 3.0%, 2.9% and 2.8% respectively; the top five in price decrease were: Ya pear, Kyoho grape, common carp, silver carp and crucian carp, with decreases of 3.6%, 2.5%, 2.4%, 1.8% and 1.7% respectively.