September 1, 2014 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on September 1 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 208.61, down 1.39 points from last Friday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 210.98, down 1.73 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at wholesale markets for agricultural products nationwide was 20.26 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 174.02), up 0.2% from last Friday;

Beef 54.50 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton 55.11 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Eggs 11.29 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.51 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.60 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 200.20), down 0.3% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.64 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.18 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from last Friday;

Common carp 12.59 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday;

Silver carp 7.07 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 27.53 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products monitored at key wholesale markets nationwide, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: cabbage, ya pear, zucchini, banana and cucumber, with increases of 5.1%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 2.6% and 2.4% respectively; the top five price decreases were: cauliflower, green beans, tomato, carrot and watermelon, with decreases of 4.5%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.2% and 2.1% respectively.