January 28, 2015 "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on January 28 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 206.08, up 1.18 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 207.97, up 1.27 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at agricultural wholesale markets nationwide was 18.47 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 165.37), down 0.2% from yesterday;

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

Mutton 53.49 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Eggs 9.15 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.00 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 4.06 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 216.32), up 0.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.83 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.51 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Common carp 11.82 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.19 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.51 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five in price increase were: cucumber, eggplant, cabbage, tomato and Chinese cabbage, with increases of 6.0%, 5.9%, 5.5%, 4.9% and 4.2% respectively; the top five in price decrease were: pumpkin, ginger, cauliflower, onion and lettuce, with decreases of 6.3%, 3.9%, 2.4%, 2.3% and 2.2% respectively.