Rise and Fall of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on January 7, 2016

According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on January 7 the “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index” was 202.00, down 0.44 points from yesterday, of which the “Vegetable Basket” Products Wholesale Price Index was 203.23, down 0.60 points from yesterday.

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at agricultural products wholesale markets nationwide was 22.87 yuan/kg (pork wholesale price index 176.92), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 53.87 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from yesterday;

Mutton 46.32 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.10 yuan/kg, down 0.1% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.78 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 vegetables under key monitoring was 4.14 yuan/kg (vegetable wholesale price index 227.25), down 0.5% from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 fruits under key monitoring was 4.91 yuan/kg, down 0.8% from yesterday;

The average price of crucian carp was 14.10 yuan/kg, down 1.1% from yesterday;

Common carp 11.86 yuan/kg, down 2.4% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.02 yuan/kg, down 3.0% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.88 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties under key monitoring at domestic fresh and live agricultural products wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: Ya pears, cabbage, garlic sprouts, rapeseed greens and garlic, with increases of 2.3%, 1.9%, 1.8%, 1.0% and 0.6% respectively; the top five price decreases were: Chinese cabbage, bananas, silver carp, grass carp and pineapple, with decreases of 5.3%, 3.7%, 3.0%, 2.6% and 2.6% respectively.