National agricultural product wholesale price index changes on February 3, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on February 3 the “national agricultural product wholesale price index” was 207.78, up 0.52 points from yesterday, of which the “shopping basket” product wholesale price index was 210.10, up 0.68 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural product wholesale market was 18.52 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 165.38), up 0.4% from yesterday;

Beef 54.60 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Mutton 52.67 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 9.17 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.98 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 4.19 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 221.61), up 0.2% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.01 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.48 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Common carp 11.98 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.24 yuan/kg, down 1.8% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.92 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in the domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale market, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: cabbage, oyster mushroom, Kyoho grape, Ya pear and lotus root, with increases of 3.9%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 1.7% and 1.7% respectively; the top five price decreases were: celtuce, spinach, orange, white radish and potato, with decreases of 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.6%, 2.5% and 1.9% respectively.