August 5, 2014 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Changes from the Previous Period

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 5 the “national agricultural products wholesale price index” was 205.18, down 0.04 points from yesterday, among which the “shopping basket” products wholesale price index was 206.98, down 0.11 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.12 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 168.20), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef was 54.18 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday;

Mutton was 54.80 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Eggs were 10.30 yuan/kg, flat from yesterday;

Dressed chicken was 14.95 yuan/kg, up 1.5% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.35 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 187.83), down 0.3% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.19 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 15.01 yuan/kg, up 1.8% from yesterday;

Common carp was 12.38 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Silver carp was 7.29 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday;

Large hairtail was 27.09 yuan/kg, up 0.7% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties of fresh and live agricultural products in the domestic wholesale market that were key monitored, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: pumpkin, watermelon, banana, Ya pear and green pepper, with increases of 3.1%, 2.4%, 2.2%, 2.0% and 1.9% respectively; the top five price decreases were: carrot, white radish, potato, lettuce and eggplant, with decreases of 3.9%, 3.8%, 2.5%, 2.4% and 2.1% respectively.