On March 2, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on March 2 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 211.20, down 0.88 points from last Saturday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 214.02, down 1.34 points from last Saturday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at wholesale markets for agricultural products nationwide was 17.98 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 162.63), down 1.0% from last Saturday;

Beef was 54.53 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from last Saturday;

Mutton was 53.17 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Saturday;

Eggs were 8.81 yuan/kg, down 0.9% from last Saturday;

Dressed chicken was 15.61 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Saturday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 4.37 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 233.39), down 2.7% from last Saturday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.45 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from last Saturday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.39 yuan/kg, down 1.6% from last Saturday;

Common carp was 12.61 yuan/kg, up 3.4% from last Saturday;

Silver carp was 7.21 yuan/kg, up 2.4% from last Saturday;

Largehead hairtail was 28.04 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Saturday.

Today, among the 60 varieties at domestic wholesale markets for fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring, compared with last Saturday the top five price increases were: tangerines, pineapples, common carp, bananas and silver carp, with increases of 5.9%, 4.6%, 3.4%, 2.9% and 2.4% respectively; the top five price decreases were: spinach, rapeseed greens, zucchini, eggplant and green peppers, with decreases of 10.6%, 10.3%, 9.9%, 7.0% and 6.0% respectively.