date:Sep 26, 2013
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However, the average wholesale prices of 18 kinds of vegetables dropped 1.3 percent from a week earlier.
The price of kidney beans shrank 11.7 percent, the cost of aubergines, or eggplants, shed 7.4 percent and the price of tomatoes went down 5.2 percent.
The slump in the cost of vegetables was because it is high season for certain products, resulting in huge supply that pushed prices down.
The cost of food accounts for about one-third of the prices used to calculate China's consum