Rise and Fall of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on August 7, 2014

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 7 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 206.09, down 0.16 points from yesterday, of which the “vegetable basket” products wholesale price index was 208.22, flat with yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.18 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 168.22), down 1.0% from yesterday;

Beef 54.08 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday;

Mutton 54.97 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Eggs 10.39 yuan/kg, up 0.3% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.87 yuan/kg, down 1.5% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.41 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 191.02), up 1.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.09 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.93 yuan/kg, down 1.2% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.53 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.29 yuan/kg, down 1.4% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 27.14 yuan/kg, flat with yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring in domestic fresh and live agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: pineapple, lettuce, oyster mushroom, spinach and onion, with increases of 5.8%, 5.0%, 4.0%, 3.9% and 3.9% respectively; the top five price decreases were: ya pear, watermelon, celtuce, carrot and dressed chicken, with decreases of 3.8%, 2.9%, 2.1%, 1.6% and 1.5% respectively.