January 12, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on January 12 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 205.42, down 1.07 points from last Friday, of which the “Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 207.30, down 1.22 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 18.80 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 167.35), down 0.1% from last Friday;

Beef 54.46 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton 53.25 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday;

Eggs 9.21 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.20 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.92 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 213.38), down 0.5% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.53 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.71 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Common carp 11.71 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.09 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday;

Large hairtail 27.74 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: winter melon, cabbage, white radish, green pepper and tangerine, with increases of 5.1%, 4.2%, 4.0%, 3.6% and 3.0% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese chives, celery, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage and zucchini, with decreases of 5.1%, 4.8%, 4.7%, 3.3% and 2.3% respectively.