Changes in the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on January 13, 2015

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on January 13 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 204.69, down 0.73 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 206.52, down 0.78 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 18.68 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 167.31), down 0.6% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.48 yuan/kg, basically flat from yesterday;

Mutton was 53.22 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs were 9.15 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.21 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.94 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 212.72), up 0.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.64 yuan/kg, up 2.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.82 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Common carp was 11.70 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.07 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.26 yuan/kg, down 1.7% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: ginger, Ya pear, watermelon, Fuji apple and celery, with increases of 4.3%, 3.7%, 3.7%, 3.3% and 2.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: cauliflower, pumpkin, grass carp, lettuce and largehead hairtail, with decreases of 5.5%, 3.2%, 2.3%, 2.3% and 1.7% respectively.