August 8, 2014 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Rise and Fall

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 8 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 206.86, up 0.77 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 209.17, up 0.95 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.12 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 168.22), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 54.20 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Mutton 55.03 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Eggs 10.40 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 15.01 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.39 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 190.61), down 0.6% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.10 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.04 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.38 yuan/kg, down 1.2% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.06 yuan/kg, down 3.2% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.14 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products under key monitoring in domestic wholesale markets, compared with yesterday the top five price increases were: pineapple, cucumber, ya pear, zucchini and white radish, with increases of 5.1%, 4.1%, 2.7%, 2.0% and 1.9% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese chives, Kyoho grape, silver carp, eggplant and oyster mushroom, with decreases of 4.1%, 4.0%, 3.2%, 2.8% and 2.4% respectively.