The price of Fuji apple in many provinces has fallen by more than 20% since late August.

Beijing, October 16 (Xinhua) according to the systematic monitoring of the prices of agricultural and sideline products and agricultural materials across the country by the Xinhua News Agency, compared with the previous day, on October 16, the prices of beef and mutton dropped; the prices of edible oil mainly fell; the prices of aquatic products rose while they were stable; the prices of vegetables, fruits, pork and poultry eggs fluctuated slightly; and the prices of finished grains and milk were basically stable.

Among the 21 kinds of vegetables monitored, the prices of 9 kinds of vegetables decreased, 5 kinds increased, and 7 kinds of prices remained the same; the prices of ordinary fresh eggs remained the same, while the prices of white-striped chicken decreased by 0.1%; the price of pig buttocks was unchanged, and the price of pork pork decreased by 0.2%; the prices of beef tendon meat, beef tendon meat, boneless fresh mutton and boneless fresh mutton decreased by no more than 0.1%. The prices of peanut blend oil, soybean blend oil, pure peanut oil, pure rapeseed oil and pure soybean oil decreased, while the price of pure sunflower oil rose by no more than 0.3%. The prices of mandarin and oranges rose by 1.1% and 0.7% respectively. The prices of snow pear and Fuji apple fell 0.5% and 0.2% respectively, and the prices of Yali pear and banana were the same.

Monitoring data show that Fuji apple prices across the country have dropped significantly since late August. Compared with August 24, Fuji apple prices across the country fell 14.0% on October 16. From a regional point of view, the prices of Fuji apples in more than 90% of provinces, autonomous regions and cities have declined. Among them, prices in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Ningxia and Xinjiang have all fallen by more than 20%.