April 28, 2015 Daily Month-on-Month Change of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on April 28 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 202.28, down 0.81 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 203.24, down 1.00 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 18.38 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 159.91), up 0.6% from yesterday;

Beef was 53.93 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Mutton was 50.08 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

Eggs were 7.57 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.05 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.75 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 209.71), down 1.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.22 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.61 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Common carp was 13.32 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 6.97 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.76 yuan/kg, basically flat from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: pineapple, watermelon, common carp, ginger and silver carp, with increases of 1.3%, 1.0%, 1.0%, 0.8% and 0.7% respectively; the top five price decreases were: cauliflower, zucchini, cabbage, eggplant and lettuce, with decreases of 6.1%, 6.0%, 4.2%, 3.9% and 3.5% respectively.