On August 17, 2015, the "National Wholesale Price Index for Agricultural Products" compared with last week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 17 the “National Wholesale Price Index for Agricultural Products” was 213.80, up 0.54 points from last Friday, among which the “Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 216.93, up 0.63 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 24.67 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 184.73), up 0.5% from last Friday;

Beef 53.83 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton 47.88 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from last Friday;

Eggs 8.43 yuan/kg, up 1.7% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 14.74 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.90 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 247.94), down 0.5% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.27 yuan/kg, down 2.0% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.17 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from last Friday;

Common carp 13.34 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.31 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 28.73 yuan/kg, up 1.2% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five price increases compared with last Friday were: watermelon, yardlong bean, celtuce, tomato and pumpkin, with margins of 4.5%, 3.8%, 3.4%, 2.8% and 2.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Kyoho grape, pineapple, cauliflower, cucumber and shiitake mushroom, with margins of 4.9%, 3.3%, 3.2%, 2.5% and 2.4% respectively.