April 20, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on April 20 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 205.37, down 0.56 points from last Friday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 207.08, down 0.67 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 17.89 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 158.94), up 1.8% from last Friday;

Beef 54.02 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday;

Mutton 50.97 yuan/kg, down 1.5% from last Friday;

Eggs 7.55 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.08 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 4.02 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 223.28), down 1.0% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.21 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.81 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from last Friday;

Common carp 13.25 yuan/kg, up 1.1% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.02 yuan/kg, up 1.3% from last Friday;

Large hairtail 27.76 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh agricultural products in the domestic wholesale market under key monitoring, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: garlic, celery, ginger, scallions and Kyoho grapes, with increases of 2.3%, 2.3%, 1.9%, 1.9% and 1.9% respectively; the top five price decreases were: oyster mushrooms, garlic sprouts, cucumber, zucchini and lettuce, with decreases of 7.5%, 6.1%, 5.8%, 5.4% and 3.7% respectively.