On August 3, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 3 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 209.12, up 0.52 points from last Friday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 211.32, up 0.51 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 23.80 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 180.37), up 1.2% from last Friday;

Beef 53.54 yuan/kg, down 1.7% from last Friday;

Mutton 48.21 yuan/kg, down 0.9% from last Friday;

Eggs 7.84 yuan/kg, up 2.2% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 14.65 yuan/kg, down 1.9% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 vegetables under key monitoring was 3.62 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 227.87), up 0.3% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 fruits under key monitoring was 5.35 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.82 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from last Friday;

Common carp 13.40 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.09 yuan/kg, down 1.5% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 28.06 yuan/kg, up 2.1% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh and live agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: cucumber, lettuce, Chinese chives, ya pear and cauliflower, with increases of 9.7%, 5.5%, 5.4%, 4.4% and 3.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: potato, lotus root, ginger, Kyoho grape and white radish, with decreases of 3.1%, 2.8%, 2.2%, 2.1% and 1.9% respectively.