National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on December 4, 2014

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 4 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 200.71, up 0.97 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 201.69, up 1.18 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural wholesale markets was 19.23 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 169.35), up 0.4% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.22 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton was 54.01 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Eggs were 10.13 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.00 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.69 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 189.52), up 1.7% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.35 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.85 yuan/kg, down 1.8% from yesterday;

Common carp was 11.88 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.08 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 28.09 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: mandarin oranges, winter melon, oyster mushrooms, eggplant and rapeseed, with increases of 4.1%, 3.6%, 3.5%, 3.4% and 3.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Ya pears, crucian carp, pineapple, onion and grass carp, with decreases of 2.6%, 1.8%, 1.3%, 1.2% and 0.8% respectively.