Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs monitoring: as of 14:00 on Oct 16 the
Agricultural Wholesale Price 200 Index was 112.88, down 0.44 points day-on-day;
the "vegetable basket" wholesale index was 112.75, down 0.44 points. National
wholesale prices at 14:00 — pork 15.70 yuan/kg (-0.6% d/d); beef 73.61 yuan/kg
(+0.7%); mutton 67.82 yuan/kg (+0.2%); eggs 9.61 yuan/kg (-0.9%); dressed
chicken 17.26 yuan/kg (+0.9%).
