Prices of edible agricultural products and means of production continue to lower

According to the Ministry of Commerce monitoring, last week (May 17 to 23rd) The country's 36 large and medium-sized cities focused on monitoring the market price of edible agricultural products fell by 0.5% compared with the previous week (same), the market prices of capital goods than the previous week decreased by 1.9%. Of the 57 main edible agricultural products, the price of Zhouhuan ratio declined 31 kinds, accounting for 54.4%, flat 5, accounting for 8.8%, rose 21, accounting for 36.8%. Vegetable prices continue to fall. The average wholesale price of 18 vegetables fell 5.2%, the third consecutive week lower, the cumulative decline of 14.8%. Among them, the decline of leafy vegetables, round cabbage, Chinese cabbage fell by more than 10%, ginger, potatoes and other food-resistant storage prices decreased by a small, 2.2% and 2.3% respectively. Edible oil prices continue to fall. The retail prices of rapeseed oil and soybean oil fell by 0.2% and 0.1% respectively, with peanut oil priced unchanged from the previous week. The price of poultry and eggs drops slightly. White-chicken and egg prices are down 0.1%. Meat prices have risen and fallen. Pork and beef prices fell 0.6% and 0.3% respectively, and mutton prices rose 0.1%. Food prices have edged higher. The price of small packaged rice rose 0.2% per cent, up from 0.2% in the previous week, and the price of small packaged flour rose by 0.2%. The price of aquatic products rebounded slightly.　　In the South China Sea, the market supply of aquatic products decreased slightly and the average wholesale price of 8 main aquatic products Rose 0.4%. Of the 112 main means of production, the price of 68 kinds of decline, accounting for 60.7%, flat 37, accounting for 33%, rose 7, accounting for 6.3%. From the large categories, minerals, non-ferrous metals, steel, rubber, energy, agricultural materials, building material, chemical products, prices decline, light raw materials prices rise. Mineral prices fell 8.2%. Zinc ore, iron ore and other major minerals prices have declined. Nonferrous metals prices overall fell 4.4%. Among them, the copper and A00 aluminum decreased by 5% and 3.1% respectively. Steel prices fell 3.3%. Steel enterprises continue to increase production, steel factory prices down, traders confidence down, building steel and other varieties of the decline is obvious, of which φ6.5mm high-speed wire, φ12mm rebar prices fell 5% and 4.3% respectively. Rubber prices fell 1.3%. Southeast Asia's main production area coincided with the tapping peak season, the market supply increased, natural rubber drop significantly. Energy prices fell 0.8%. Oil, coke prices have come down. The price of agricultural materials fell by 0.6%.　　Agricultural diesel and fertilizer prices fell by 1.1% and 0.5% respectively. (For details, please click on the Ministry of Commerce website: "Business Forecast" section)