On August 28, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 28 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 215.62, up 0.98 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 219.20, up 1.41 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 24.98 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 184.89), up 0.9% from yesterday;

Beef 54.12 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Mutton 47.87 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Eggs 9.19 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.91 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.88 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 252.38), down 1.0% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.17 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.96 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.17 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.21 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.63 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: cabbage, Fuji apples, dressed chicken, celtuce and white radish, with increases of 2.3%, 1.4%, 1.4%, 1.3% and 1.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: lettuce, shiitake mushrooms, Chinese chives, rapeseed and oyster mushrooms, with decreases of 4.1%, 3.6%, 2.5%, 1.9% and 1.8% respectively.