National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on November 24, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on November 24 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 196.22, up 1.66 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 196.21, up 2.04 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at wholesale markets nationwide for agricultural products was 22.48 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 174.73), up 0.1% from yesterday;

Beef 54.37 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton 46.13 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.01 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.70 yuan/kg, down 1.7% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 vegetables under key monitoring was 3.64 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 199.37), up 2.0% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 fruits under key monitoring was 4.93 yuan/kg, up 1.9% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.96 yuan/kg, down 1.7% from yesterday;

Common carp 11.86 yuan/kg, down 1.5% from yesterday;

Silver carp 6.88 yuan/kg, down 1.9% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.87 yuan/kg, down 1.4% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic wholesale markets for fresh and live agricultural products, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: celery, cucumber, zucchini, cowpea and rapeseed, with increases of 5.9%, 4.7%, 4.6%, 4.5% and 4.1% respectively; the top five price decreases were: bighead carp, celtuce, silver carp, dressed chicken and crucian carp, with decreases of 2.6%, 2.3%, 1.9%, 1.7% and 1.7% respectively.