On March 17, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on March 17 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 204.88, up 0.64 points from yesterday, among which the “shopping basket” products wholesale price index was 206.63, up 0.79 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 17.59 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 156.11), up 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 54.42 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 53.12 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.30 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.45 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.99 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 213.79), down 0.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.24 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.64 yuan/kg, down 2.4% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.62 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.18 yuan/kg, down 1.6% from yesterday;

Large hairtail 27.76 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: ya pear, pumpkin, pineapple, lettuce and eggplant, with increases of 2.7%, 2.1%, 2.0%, 1.3% and 1.1% respectively; the top five price decreases were: oyster mushroom, crucian carp, scallion, white radish and cucumber, with decreases of 2.8%, 2.4%, 2.1%, 2.1% and 1.9% respectively.