On March 20, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on March 20 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 203.36, down 0.66 points from yesterday; among this, the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 204.66, down 0.79 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 17.21 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 155.96), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.39 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Mutton was 52.03 yuan/kg, down 1.2% from yesterday;

Eggs were 8.11 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.38 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.92 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 208.76), down 1.0% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.12 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.86 yuan/kg, up 1.5% from yesterday;

Common carp was 12.79 yuan/kg, up 1.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.16 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Large hairtail was 27.92 yuan/kg, up 0.6% 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: ginger, pineapple, crucian carp, large yellow croaker and common carp, with increases of 3.2%, 1.5%, 1.5%, 1.4% and 1.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: spinach, oyster mushroom, cucumber, mandarin orange and zucchini, with decreases of 4.4%, 4.2%, 3.7%, 3.6% and 2.9% respectively.