October 10, 2015 "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 10 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 197.81, down 0.30 points from yesterday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 198.21, down 0.21 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 23.35 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 180.11), down 0.5% from yesterday;

Beef 53.76 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Mutton 47.01 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.24 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.73 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.29 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 199.46), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 4.72 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.53 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.50 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.07 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 29.07 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five by price increase compared with yesterday were: Ya pear, banana, zucchini, lettuce and largehead hairtail, with increases of 2.6%, 2.5%, 1.8%, 1.5% and 1.4% respectively; the top five by price decrease were: white radish, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, carrot and potato, with decreases of 3.9%, 3.0%, 2.5%, 2.5% and 2.1% respectively.