November 3, 2014 National Wholesale Price Index for Agricultural Products Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on November 3 the “National Wholesale Price Index for Agricultural Products” was 195.21, down 0.99 points from last Friday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 194.85, down 1.25 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 19.42 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 170.00), unchanged from last Friday;

Beef 54.34 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday;

Mutton 54.93 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from last Friday;

Eggs 10.47 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.34 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.30 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 165.37), down 1.2% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.51 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.11 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from last Friday;

Common carp 12.08 yuan/kg, down 1.5% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.09 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 27.54 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored in the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: winter melon, oyster mushroom, Kyoho grape, pumpkin and Chinese chives, with increases of 3.3%, 3.0%, 2.9%, 2.6% and 2.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, celtuce, spinach and celery, with decreases of 7.4%, 5.9%, 5.2%, 5.2% and 5.1% respectively.