On May 4, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with before the holiday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on May 4 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 199.98, down 0.34 points from before the holiday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 200.57, down 0.29 points from before the holiday.
As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 18.41 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 161.62), down 0.1% from before the holiday;
Beef was 54.07 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from before the holiday;
Mutton was 49.71 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from before the holiday;
Eggs were 7.46 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from before the holiday;
Dressed chicken was 14.83 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from before the holiday.
The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.56 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 199.91), down 1.9% from before the holiday;
The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.36 yuan/kg, up 1.6% from before the holiday.
The average price of crucian carp was 13.57 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from before the holiday;
Common carp was 13.28 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from before the holiday;
Silver carp was 6.96 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from before the holiday;
Largehead hairtail was 27.76 yuan/kg, unchanged from before the holiday.
Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with before the holiday were: oyster mushroom, Kyoho grape, Welsh onion, mandarin orange and carrot, with increases of 7.0%, 4.5%, 3.5%, 3.4% and 2.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: garlic shoot, zucchini, eggplant, rapeseed and spinach, with decreases of 9.5%, 8.2%, 7.6%, 6.0% and 4.7% respectively.