| Price of Edible Farm Produce Falls Slightly |
| 2008-07-18 10:39 |
| From:MOFCOM Article type:Translated |
According to the monitoring results of MOFCOM, last week (From July 7 to 13), the farm produce price monitored in 36 large- and medium-sized cities decreased by 0.4% as compared with that in the previous week. Among the 57 main types of agricultural products, 34 saw the price fall, accounting for 59.7% of the total;8 remained unchanged, 14%; and 15 rose, 26.3%. Specifically, the vegetable price began to fall by 2.2% last week. Out of the 18 main types of vegetables monitored, 11 saw a price fall, 5 rose and 2 remained unchanged. The wholesale fruit price continued to fall by 1.8% as compared with that in the previous week. The meat price fell slightly, and among which, the wholesale price of pork, beef and lamb dropped by 0.9%, 0.2% and 0.3% respectively. Chicken and egg price decreased slightly while aquatic products saw both rise and fall. The edible oil price leveled off and among which, both soybean oil and rapeseed oil rose by 0.1% while peanut oil remain the same compared with that in the previous week. The grain price rose slightly. Last week, the general price of the monitored capital goods market leveled off with the previous week. Among the 112 main types of products, 32 saw the week-on-week price rise, accounting for 28.6% of the total;65 remained unchanged, 58.0%; and 15 fell, 13.4%. In terms of large categories, prices of minerals, building materials, light industrial materials, rubber, chemical industrial products and agricultural resources products rose while ferrous and non-ferrous metal prices continued to fall. |
| (Source: English Site of Department of Information Technology) |
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