March 5, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on March 5 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 209.53, down 1.00 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 212.19, down 1.09 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 17.88 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 161.66), down 0.6% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.66 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton was 52.87 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Eggs were 8.67 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.83 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 4.25 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 224.92), down 1.4% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.47 yuan/kg, down 0.9% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.79 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from yesterday;

Common carp was 12.55 yuan/kg, down 1.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.05 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.33 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products at domestic wholesale markets under key monitoring, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: cauliflower, Kyoho grapes, winter melon, pineapple and crucian carp, with increases of 2.2%, 1.9%, 1.1%, 0.6% and 0.4% respectively; the top five price decreases were: spinach, rapeseed greens, banana, celery and green pepper, with decreases of 6.4%, 4.0%, 3.4%, 3.4% and 3.2% respectively.