Rise and Fall of the National Agricultural Product Wholesale Price Index on February 5, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on February 5 the “National Agricultural Product Wholesale Price Index” was 207.65, up 0.01 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 209.97, up 0.03 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural product wholesale market was 18.26 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 164.38), down 0.8% from yesterday;

Beef 54.59 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton 52.32 yuan/kg, basically flat from yesterday;

Eggs 9.06 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.10 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 4.21 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 223.80), up 1.2% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.94 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.53 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Common carp 11.80 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.05 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.92 yuan/kg, flat from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at the domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale market, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: garlic sprouts, pineapple, Chinese cabbage, rapeseed greens and ginger, with increases of 5.9%, 4.4%, 2.8%, 2.4% and 2.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Ya pears, pumpkin, celtuce, Fuji apples and watermelon, with decreases of 3.7%, 3.3%, 2.2%, 2.1% and 1.7% respectively.