June 15, 2015 National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on June 15 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 204.23, up 0.17 points from last Friday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 205.79, up 0.36 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural wholesale markets was 19.72 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 167.47), up 0.7% from last Friday;

Beef was 53.83 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from last Friday;

Mutton was 48.80 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Eggs were 7.20 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday;

Dressed chicken was 14.56 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.52 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 217.55), unchanged from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.10 yuan/kg, down 1.6% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.38 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday;

Common carp was 13.47 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday;

Silver carp was 7.21 yuan/kg, up 2.6% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail was 28.65 yuan/kg, up 2.5% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: garlic sprouts, Chinese chives, lotus root, Welsh onion and silver carp, with increases of 5.4%, 3.7%, 2.9%, 2.6% and 2.6% respectively; the top five price decreases were: watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, zucchini and cauliflower, with decreases of 6.2%, 5.3%, 4.4%, 4.3% and 3.8% respectively.