Changes in the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on May 8, 2015 compared with yesterday

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 18.54 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 162.45), flat compared with yesterday;

Beef was 53.93 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton was 49.34 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday;

Eggs were 7.46 yuan/kg, flat compared with yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 14.89 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.45 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 190.81), down 2.0% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.42 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.59 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Common carp was 13.37 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.13 yuan/kg, up 1.6% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 28.13 yuan/kg, up 1.7% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored at the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five in price increase compared with yesterday were: celtuce, Chinese cabbage, Kyoho grape, onion and largehead hairtail, with increases of 2.6%, 2.5%, 1.8%, 1.8% and 1.7% respectively; the top five in price decrease were: Chinese chives, eggplant, lettuce, cucumber and spinach, with decreases of 6.5%, 6.2%, 4.8%, 4.7% and 4.3% respectively.