National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on July 14, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 14 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 204.42, down 0.21 points from yesterday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 205.80, down 0.33 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 22.24 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 176.92), down 0.2% from yesterday;

Beef was 53.54 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton was 48.14 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Eggs were 7.12 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 14.70 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.53 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 222.79), unchanged from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.66 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.84 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from yesterday;

Common carp was 13.61 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.19 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.89 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored at the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: tomatoes, watermelons, garlic shoots, carrots and crucian carp, with increases of 2.7%, 2.4%, 2.2%, 1.7% and 1.4% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Ya pears, celery, zucchini, spinach and potatoes, with decreases of 4.7%, 3.2%, 2.9%, 2.3% and 2.2% respectively.