June 23, 2015 "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with before the Dragon Boat Festival

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on June 23 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 203.82, down 0.47 points from before the Dragon Boat Festival, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 205.06, down 0.50 points.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural wholesale markets was 20.09 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 167.29), up 0.6% from before the festival;

Beef 53.90 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from before the festival;

Mutton 48.62 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from before the festival;

Eggs 7.17 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from before the festival;

Dressed chicken 14.52 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from before the festival.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.47 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 218.21), down 1.4% from before the festival;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.06 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from before the festival.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.23 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from before the festival;

Common carp 13.46 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from before the festival;

Silver carp 7.09 yuan/kg, down 1.9% from before the festival;

Largehead hairtail 28.41 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from before the festival.

Today, among the 60 varieties monitored in domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with before the festival were: pineapple, Welsh onion, Chinese chives, lotus root and cabbage, with increases of 7.7%, 3.6%, 3.1%, 2.7% and 1.6% respectively; the top five price decreases were: tomato, cauliflower, yardlong bean, green pepper and eggplant, with decreases of 9.1%, 7.5%, 7.5%, 6.0% and 5.2% respectively.