On July 28, 2014, the "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 28 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 207.17, up 2.14 points from last Friday, among which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 209.40, up 2.40 points from last Friday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at agricultural wholesale markets nationwide was 18.85 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 166.52), up 0.7% from last Friday;

Beef was 54.01 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from last Friday;

Mutton was 55.09 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday;

Eggs were 10.16 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from last Friday; dressed chicken was 14.70 yuan/kg, flat with last Friday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetable varieties was 3.35 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 189.63), up 0.9% from last Friday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruit varieties was 6.55 yuan/kg, up 1.6% from last Friday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.66 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Friday;

Common carp was 12.13 yuan/kg, up 1.1% from last Friday;

Silver carp was 7.09 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from last Friday;

Largehead hairtail was 27.00 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from last Friday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh and live agricultural product wholesale markets, compared with last Friday the top five price increases were: cucumber, white radish, yardlong bean, Chinese chives and oyster mushroom, with increases of 5.9%, 4.9%, 4.0%, 4.0% and 3.7% respectively; the top five price decreases were: cauliflower, cabbage, eggplant, green pepper and onion, with decreases of 5.8%, 4.3%, 2.5%, 2.2% and 1.6% respectively.