October 20, 2014 "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.53 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 172.29), down 0.3% from last Friday;

Beef 54.69 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton 55.23 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Eggs 10.50 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.57 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.51 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 181.94), down 2.0% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.41 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.46 yuan/kg, down 2.1% from last Friday;

Common carp 12.19 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from last Friday;

Silver carp 6.88 yuan/kg, down 2.4% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 27.79 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: watermelon, pineapple, winter melon, Chinese chives and eggs, with increases of 5.1%, 1.4%, 1.2%, 0.6% and 0.3% respectively; the top five price decreases were: celtuce, spinach, Chinese cabbage, ginger and cucumber, with decreases of 6.6%, 5.2%, 3.3%, 3.2% and 3.0% respectively.