Rise and Fall of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on June 10, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on June 10 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 202.81, up 0.16 points from yesterday, among which the “shopping basket” products wholesale price index was 203.89, up 0.07 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.64 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 166.97), up 0.5% from yesterday;

Beef 53.81 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday;

Mutton 48.94 yuan/kg, down 1.6% from yesterday;

Eggs 7.12 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.51 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday.

The average price of 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.50 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 212.07), up 1.2% from yesterday;

The average price of 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.11 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.41 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.46 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.05 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.11 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: mandarin oranges, cabbage, pineapple, eggplant and zucchini, with increases of 4.7%, 4.1%, 3.5%, 3.3% and 3.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: watermelon, ya pear, mutton, dressed chicken and Fuji apple, with decreases of 4.3%, 2.3%, 1.6%, 1.1% and 0.9% respectively.