National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on October 16, 2014

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.62 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 172.93), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 54.99 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton 55.25 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 10.49 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.66 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.58 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 189.35), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.47 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.02 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.27 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.12 yuan/kg, up 1.1% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.79 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products at domestic wholesale markets under key monitoring, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: pineapple, celtuce, silver carp, Kyoho grape and celery, with increases of 3.2%, 1.2%, 1.1%, 1.0% and 0.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese chives, rapeseed (yu choy), cucumber, watermelon and spinach, with decreases of 2.1%, 1.9%, 1.8%, 1.2% and 1.0% respectively.