July 9, 2015 "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 9 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 204.13, down 0.25 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 205.56, down 0.21 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural wholesale markets was 22.03 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 176.10), up 0.5% from yesterday;

Beef 53.65 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 48.36 yuan/kg, basically flat compared with yesterday;

Eggs 7.00 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.49 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.52 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 221.82), up 0.9% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.67 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.59 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.49 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.06 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday;

Large hairtail 27.92 yuan/kg, basically flat compared with yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: Chinese cabbage, yardlong beans, white radish, onion and lettuce, with increases of 4.5%, 3.7%, 3.5%, 3.4% and 3.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Kyoho grapes, cucumber, large yellow croaker, tomato and green pepper, with decreases of 4.9%, 2.5%, 2.1%, 1.9% and 1.5% respectively.