date:Mar 05, 2013
The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a statement on its website that average wholesale prices for 18 monitored vegetables plunged 8.1 percent last week from a week earlier, marking the second weekly drop in a row.
The ministry attributed the decline to relatively fast vegetable growth caused by warming weather, which has served to push up supplies.
Wholesale prices for eight types of aquatic produce dipped 0.7 percent from the previous week, the MOC said.
The wholesale price of pork, a stap