On August 19, 2014, the "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 19 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 209.91, up 0.66 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 212.75, up 0.86 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural wholesale market was 19.96 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 172.11), down 0.4% from yesterday;

Beef 54.10 yuan/kg, basically flat compared with yesterday;

Mutton 54.88 yuan/kg, basically flat compared with yesterday;

Eggs 10.96 yuan/kg, up 1.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.12 yuan/kg, up 0.6% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.52 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 196.49), up 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.91 yuan/kg, down 1.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.21 yuan/kg, up 1.7% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.47 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.05 yuan/kg, up 1.7% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.53 yuan/kg, flat compared with yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: zucchini, celtuce, rapeseed, cauliflower and banana, with increases of 8.1%, 4.0%, 3.9%, 3.2% and 2.9%, respectively; the top five price decreases were: pineapple, lotus root, oyster mushroom, Kyoho grape and carrot, with decreases of 6.9%, 3.3%, 3.2%, 2.6% and 2.1%, respectively.