date:Mar 14, 2013
The Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday in an online statement that the average wholesale prices for 18 vegetables on the monitored list fell 2.2 percent week on week during the period of March 4 to 10.
The decrease brought the total price drop to 16.4 percent from that of three weeks before, the statement said.
It was attributed to abundant supply in the country's northern regions.
The wholesale price of pork, a staple meat, fell 1.5 percent week on week, while the price of beef and mutton saw