August 5, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 5 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 210.47, up 0.47 points from yesterday, of which the “Basket of Vegetables” Products Wholesale Price Index was 213.03, up 0.66 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 23.91 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 182.15), up 0.7% from yesterday;

Beef 53.90 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday;

Mutton 48.43 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Eggs 7.96 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.62 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.72 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 232.89), up 0.8% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.42 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.91 yuan/kg, up 2.1% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.40 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.15 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.50 yuan/kg, basically flat from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: celtuce, Chinese chives, rapeseed (yu choy), pineapple and winter melon, with increases of 3.7%, 3.3%, 2.8%, 2.7% and 2.7% respectively; the top five price decreases were: zucchini, potato, shiitake mushroom, yardlong bean and Chinese cabbage, with decreases of 2.6%, 0.9%, 0.8%, 0.8% and 0.7% respectively.