April 2, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Change from the Previous Day

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on April 2 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 201.73, up 0.57 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 202.83, up 0.64 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 17.48 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 157.25), up 0.8% from yesterday;

Beef 54.29 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 52.30 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday;

Eggs 7.82 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.82 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.81 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 203.11), up 0.8% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.03 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.50 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.92 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Silver carp 6.95 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday;

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

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring at domestic wholesale markets, the top five in price increase compared with yesterday were: celery, shiitake mushrooms, potatoes, cabbage and scallions, with increases of 4.0%, 3.9%, 3.7%, 3.1% and 3.0% respectively; the top five in price decrease were: oyster mushrooms, rapeseed greens, common carp, eggplant and cauliflower, with decreases of 2.2%, 1.7%, 1.1%, 1.1% and 1.0% respectively.