August 18, 2014 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Week-on-Week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 18 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 209.25, up 1.44 points from last Friday, of which the “Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 211.89, up 1.58 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at wholesale markets for agricultural products nationwide was 20.04 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 171.54), up 0.1% from last Friday;

Beef 54.09 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from last Friday;

Mutton 54.86 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Eggs 10.84 yuan/kg, up 2.4% from last Friday;

Dressed chicken 15.03 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.51 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 187.45), down 0.3% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 5.97 yuan/kg, up 1.4% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.95 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from last Friday;

Common carp 12.56 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from last Friday;

Silver carp 6.93 yuan/kg, down 2.3% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail 27.53 yuan/kg, basically flat from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 key monitored varieties at domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: eggplant, cauliflower, pineapple, watermelon and tomato, with margins of 8.4%, 5.2%, 5.1%, 3.2% and 3.2% respectively; the top five price decreases were: oyster mushroom, pumpkin, zucchini, cucumber and scallion, with margins of 4.3%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 3.6% and 2.8% respectively.