April 1, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on April 1 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 201.16, down 0.90 points from yesterday, of which the “Basket of Vegetables” Products Wholesale Price Index was 202.19, down 1.06 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 17.34 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 156.59), up 0.2% from yesterday;

Beef 54.18 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 52.56 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 7.77 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.90 yuan/kg, down 1.2% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.78 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 202.38), down 1.8% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.01 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.41 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from yesterday;

Common carp 13.07 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Silver carp 6.89 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday;

Large hairtail 27.74 yuan/kg, down 1.2% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: pineapple, mandarin orange, rapeseed (bok choy), watermelon and common carp, with increases of 2.4%, 2.0%, 1.7%, 1.1% and 0.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: oyster mushroom, celery, cauliflower, pumpkin and lettuce, with decreases of 4.8%, 4.6%, 3.9%, 3.4% and 2.9% respectively.