On September 15, 2014, the "National Agricultural Product Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 15 the “National Agricultural Product Wholesale Price Index” was 204.08, down 0.57 points from last Friday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 205.65, down 0.69 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural product wholesale markets was 20.06 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 172.74), unchanged from last Friday; beef was 54.37 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton was 54.88 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Friday;

Eggs were 11.26 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from last Friday; dressed chicken was 15.75 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.55 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 192.50), unchanged from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.48 yuan/kg, down 1.8% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.37 yuan/kg, up 1.1% from last Friday;

Common carp was 12.46 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Silver carp was 7.05 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from last Friday;

Large hairtail was 27.64 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring at domestic wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: oyster mushroom, lotus root, Chinese chives, cabbage and cowpea, with increases of 4.3%, 3.6%, 3.4%, 3.0% and 1.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: cauliflower, lettuce, winter melon, ya pear and watermelon, with decreases of 8.4%, 6.7%, 5.7%, 5.4% and 4.1% respectively.