July 2, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Period-on-Period Change

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 2 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 203.34, up 0.42 points from yesterday, of which the “Shopping Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 204.54, up 0.51 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 21.04 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 172.18), up 0.9% from yesterday;

Beef 54.29 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Mutton 48.63 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 7.08 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.33 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.41 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 212.82), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.94 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.43 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.71 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.28 yuan/kg, up 1.5% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.35 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring at domestic wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: cucumber, bighead carp, zucchini, lettuce and yardlong bean, with increases of 4.3%, 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.5% and 2.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: eggplant, Chinese chives, winter melon, Kyoho grape and ginger, with decreases of 3.7%, 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.7% and 2.2% respectively.