On March 9, 2015, the "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on March 9 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 207.67, down 1.73 points from last Friday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 209.83, down 1.99 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at agricultural wholesale markets nationwide was 17.65 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 157.01), down 1.2% from last Friday;

Beef 54.33 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from last Friday;

Mutton 52.80 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from last Friday;

Eggs 8.55 yuan/kg, down 0.9% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.34 yuan/kg, down 2.2% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 4.18 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 221.91), down 1.2% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.40 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.89 yuan/kg, up 1.3% from last Friday;

Common carp 12.77 yuan/kg, up 1.9% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.21 yuan/kg, up 1.7% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 28.04 yuan/kg, up 2.4% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties monitored as key items at domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: Chinese cabbage, largehead hairtail, common carp, pumpkin and silver carp, with increases of 3.4%, 2.4%, 1.9%, 1.8% and 1.7% respectively; the top five price decreases were: cucumber, celtuce, green pepper, eggplant and tomato, with decreases of 9.6%, 5.4%, 4.9%, 3.6% and 3.4% respectively.