Weekly change in the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index on December 1, 2014

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 1 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 199.13, up 1.65 points from last Friday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 199.80, up 1.97 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural wholesale markets was 19.22 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 169.52), flat compared with last Friday;

Beef was 54.21 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton was 54.03 yuan/kg, basically flat compared with last Friday;

Eggs were 10.17 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken was 14.86 yuan/kg, flat compared with last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.53 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 182.14), up 1.7% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.35 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.81 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Common carp was 11.98 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday;

Silver carp was 6.95 yuan/kg, down 1.4% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.51 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored at domestic fresh and live agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: cucumber, zucchini, Chinese chives, pineapple and winter melon, with increases of 12.1%, 10.0%, 8.1%, 7.1% and 6.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: pumpkin, cauliflower, banana, ginger and onion, with decreases of 4.7%, 4.5%, 3.0%, 2.3% and 1.9% respectively.