September 3, 2014 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 3 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 208.34, up 0.02 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 210.74, up 0.08 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 20.33 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 174.33), up 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.42 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Mutton was 54.63 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday;

Eggs were 11.27 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 15.51 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 198.83), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 5.73 yuan/kg, up 1.8% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.01 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Common carp was 12.57 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.06 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.98 yuan/kg, up 1.3% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: Ya pears, bananas, eggplants, cowpeas and pineapples, with increases of 4.0%, 3.6%, 2.9%, 2.5% and 2.5% respectively; the top five price decreases were: watermelons, oyster mushrooms, lotus roots, cauliflower and silver carp, with decreases of 4.2%, 4.1%, 1.8%, 1.4% and 1.1% respectively.