A customer buys fruits at a supermarket in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, central China's Hunan Province, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Yan Qinlong/Xinhua)
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The wholesale prices of China's agricultural products edged down last week, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
From May 6 to 12, the China agricultural product wholesale price index came in at 125.04, down 2.64 points from one week earlier.
On a weekly basis, the average wholesale price of pork, a staple meat in China, rose 1.1 percent to 20.26 yuan (about 2.99 U.S. dollars) per kg, and that of eggs dropped 2.1 percent to 10.51 yuan per kg.
The average wholesale prices of 19 key types of vegetables tracked by the government went down 4.4 percent from the previous week, while that of six key types of fruits fell 2 percent.
The wholesale price index is compiled on the basis of data collected from over 200 agricultural wholesale markets and is updated daily based on the weighted average of price indices for goods including vegetables, fruits, aquatic products and livestock products. ■
