National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on November 28, 2014

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on November 28 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 197.48, down 0.62 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 197.83, down 0.64 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.22 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 169.34), down 0.5% from yesterday;

Beef 54.30 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 54.05 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Eggs 10.22 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.86 yuan/kg, down 0.9% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.47 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 177.02), down 0.9% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.30 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 13.84 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Common carp 12.04 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.05 yuan/kg, up 2.9% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.42 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: watermelon, Ya pear, pineapple, silver carp and cucumber, with increases of 5.1%, 4.4%, 4.2%, 2.9% and 2.9% respectively; the top five price decreases were: celery, ginger, spinach, Welsh onion and eggplant, with decreases of 5.2%, 3.7%, 2.8%, 2.6% and 2.2% respectively.