September 22, 2014 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 22 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 204.97, up 0.33 points from last Friday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 206.72, up 0.40 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 20.23 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 173.90), down 0.2% from last Friday;

Beef 54.39 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from last Friday;

Mutton 55.15 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from last Friday;

Eggs 11.14 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.65 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.68 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 195.95), up 2.2% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.57 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.26 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from last Friday;

Common carp 12.66 yuan/kg, up 1.2% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.22 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 27.72 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties monitored at the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market, compared with last Friday, the top five price increases were: cucumber, winter melon, eggplant, zucchini and watermelon, with increases of 20.9%, 14.5%, 12.2%, 9.2% and 9.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Ya pear, Welsh onion, pineapple, oyster mushroom and celtuce, with decreases of 6.9%, 3.2%, 1.9%, 1.6% and 1.4% respectively.