According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs monitoring, the "Agricultural Product Wholesale Price 200 Index" on July 17 was 112.86, up 0.11 points from yesterday, and the "Vegetable Basket" product wholesale price index was 112.93, up 0.13 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural product wholesale market average prices were: pork at 20.63 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday; beef at 63.76 yuan/kg, down 0.1%; mutton at 59.53 yuan/kg, down 0.5%; eggs at 7.06 yuan/kg, up 0.6%; and whole chicken at 17.29 yuan/kg, up 0.9%. The average price of 28 key monitored vegetables was 4.38 yuan/kg, up 0.2%; the average price of 6 key monitored fruits was 7.23 yuan/kg, down 0.8%. Crucian carp was 22.87 yuan/kg, up 0.6%; common carp was 15.69 yuan/kg, down 0.4%; silver carp was 10.30 yuan/kg, up 0.3%; and hairtail was 41.29 yuan/kg, up 2.1%.
Today, among the 46 key monitored fresh agricultural products in domestic wholesale markets, the top five price increases compared to yesterday were eggplant, pineapple, winter melon, shallots, and green onions, with increases of 4.9%, 3.7%, 3.6%, 3.0%, and 3.0% respectively; the top five price decreases were zucchini, watermelon, Kyoho grapes, Fuji apples, and lettuce, with decreases of 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.0%, 1.6%, and 1.6% respectively.