May 18, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on May 18 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 198.10, down 0.05 points from last Friday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 198.33, down 0.08 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 18.92 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 164.10), up 0.5% from last Friday;

Beef 53.71 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from last Friday;

Mutton 49.30 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday;

Eggs 7.37 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 14.65 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.40 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 190.83), down 1.4% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.56 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.18 yuan/kg, up 1.8% from last Friday;

Common carp 13.26 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from last Friday;

Silver carp 6.92 yuan/kg, down 1.7% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 27.21 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: cauliflower, spinach, pineapple, mandarin orange and crucian carp, with increases of 6.8%, 4.0%, 2.7%, 2.3% and 1.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese cabbage, watermelon, green pepper, white radish and zucchini, with decreases of 7.3%, 6.4%, 6.1%, 4.6% and 4.6% respectively.