National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on September 4, 2014

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 4 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 207.78, down 0.56 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 210.12, down 0.62 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural wholesale markets was 20.27 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 174.48), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 54.30 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 54.95 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday;

Eggs 11.24 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.61 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.58 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 198.47), unchanged from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.67 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.81 yuan/kg, down 1.3% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.45 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.04 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.97 yuan/kg, basically unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties key monitored in domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: pineapple, zucchini, celtuce, garlic scapes and green peppers, with increases of 3.8%, 2.9%, 2.2%, 1.5% and 1.4% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Ya pear, yardlong beans, cauliflower, Kyoho grapes and pumpkin, with decreases of 4.4%, 3.0%, 2.8%, 2.5% and 2.0% respectively.