National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change on April 9, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on April 9 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 203.66, up 0.37 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 205.12, up 0.46 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 17.51 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 158.83), up 0.3% from yesterday; beef was 54.22 yuan/kg, basically flat from yesterday;

Mutton was 52.13 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Eggs were 7.66 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.06 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.98 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 217.24), down 0.7% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.08 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.54 yuan/kg, down 1.6% from yesterday;

Common carp was 13.05 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.01 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.76 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: celtuce, oyster mushroom, Chinese cabbage, celery and rapeseed, with increases of 6.0%, 5.9%, 2.6%, 2.2% and 2.0% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese chives, garlic, white radish, lotus root and yardlong bean, with decreases of 3.7%, 3.3%, 2.8%, 2.7% and 2.6% respectively.