Rise and fall of the national agricultural products wholesale price index on May 28, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on May 28 the “national agricultural products wholesale price index” was 199.83, down 0.01 points from yesterday, of which the “shopping basket” products wholesale price index was 200.39, up 0.01 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 19.30 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 164.58), up 0.5% from yesterday;

Beef 54.17 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Mutton 49.65 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday;

Eggs 7.31 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.77 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.34 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 192.60), flat compared with yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.54 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.98 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.65 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.32 yuan/kg, up 2.5% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.47 yuan/kg, up 1.3% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties in the key monitoring of the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five by price increase compared with yesterday were: spinach, lotus root, silver carp, Kyoho grape and carrot, with increases of 5.5%, 2.9%, 2.5%, 2.1% and 2.0% respectively; the top five by price decrease were: watermelon, winter melon, green beans, eggplant and Chinese cabbage, with decreases of 4.4%, 3.6%, 3.4%, 2.9% and 2.6% respectively.