Changes in the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on January 30, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on January 30 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 207.07, up 0.39 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 209.26, up 0.41 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 18.38 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 165.49), down 0.8% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.78 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday;

Mutton was 53.25 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs were 9.16 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.01 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 4.18 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 222.25), up 1.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.90 yuan/kg, up 1.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.60 yuan/kg, up 2.3% from yesterday;

Common carp was 11.90 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.31 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.51 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: Chinese cabbage, celery, tomato, onion and cucumber, with increases of 5.0%, 4.2%, 3.9%, 3.5% and 3.4% respectively; the top five price decreases were: yardlong bean, pork, dressed chicken, banana and ginger, with decreases of 2.0%, 0.8%, 0.5%, 0.2% and 0.2% respectively.