July 24 National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index Change from Yesterday

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 24 the “National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index” was 206.05, up 0.49 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Product Wholesale Price Index was 208.19, up 0.53 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural wholesale markets was 18.84 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 166.03), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 54.31 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday; mutton 55.43 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday;

Eggs 10.18 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.84 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 3.35 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 190.64), up 0.9% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 6.51 yuan/kg, up 1.6% from yesterday.

The average price of crucian carp was 14.88 yuan/kg, up 0.9% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.07 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.32 yuan/kg, down 0.9% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 26.84 yuan/kg, up 1.8% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh agricultural product wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: Chinese chives, Kyoho grapes, oyster mushrooms, bananas and carrots, with increases of 3.6%, 3.3%, 3.2%, 3.1% and 2.9% respectively; the top five price decreases were: celtuce, cauliflower, yardlong beans, eggplant and winter melon, with decreases of 3.8%, 1.8%, 1.4%, 1.2% and 1.0% respectively.