Fresh Food Supply & Consumption

Supply Figures

Livestock / Poultry | Marine / Freshwater Fish | Vegetables / Eggs

Average Wholesale Prices

Livestock / Poultry | Marine / Freshwater Fish | Vegetables / Eggs

Supply of major fresh food - reference figures (6/4/2025)

Supply of livestock and poultry today

Supply of livestock and poultry
聽	Live pig*	Live cattle*	Live chicken^#
聽	(head)	(head)	(bird)
Mainland	2,699	23	0 (0^)
Local	169	-	13,397 (50^)
Total supply	2,868	23	13,397 (50^)

* Live pig and cattle figures supplied by Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. Figures refer to the total stock intake at slaughterhouses yesterday, supplying today's market demand.

# Live chicken figures refer to the total stock intake at the Government Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market yesterday, supplying today's market demand.

^{^}Number of chickens stored at Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market as at 09:00 a.m. today.

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Supply of marine fish today

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Total throughput of the 7 markets of the Fish Marketing Organization (FMO) yesterday:

62.16 tonnes

Supply of freshwater fish today

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Total supply of the Government Cheung Sha Wan and Western Wholesale Food Markets and the private Yuen Long Freshwater Fish Market yesterday:

102.46 tonnes

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Supply of vegetables - Vegetable Marketing Organization (VMO) and the Government Wholesale Markets yesterday^@

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Supply of vegetables
聽	(Tonnes)
VMO*	97.87
Government wholesale markets^#	618.56

* Total throughput of the VMO Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Vegetable Market yesterday.

^# Total vegetable intake at the Government Cheung Sha Wan and Western Wholesale Food Markets and the North District Temporary Market for Agricultural Products.

^@ Account for about 40% of market share.

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Supply of Eggs - Government Wholesale Markets^@

Total egg intake of the Government Cheung Sha Wan and Western Wholesale Markets yesterday:

3,260,000 nos.

^@ Account for about 50% of market share.

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Wholesale prices of major fresh food (average reference figures) (6/4/2025)

Livestock

Livestock
聽	($ / Catty)
Live pig*	11.51
Live cattle^#	Not yet supplied

* Weighted average transaction price for live pig provided by slaughterhouses.

# Average transaction price for live cattle provided by Ng Fung Hong.

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Poultry

Poultry
聽	Live chicken^#
聽	($ / Catty)
Mainland	-
Local	32.0

# Weighted average wholesale price provided by major wholesalers at the Government Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market.

Reference farm gate price for local live chicken in the past week: $ 25.6/Catty.

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Marine fish

Marine fish
Type	$ / Catty*	Type	$ / Catty*
.
Golden thread	76	Horse head	46
Yellow croaker	86	Big eyes	96
Scads	16	Breams	50
Hairtail	50	Mackerel	60
Croakers	16	Filefish	42

* Average wholesale prices provided by major wholesalers at the Fish Marketing Organization Cheung Sha Wan Fish Market.

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Freshwater fish^#

Freshwater fish
Type	$ / Catty^#
.
Grass carp	18.5
Big head	19.6
Mud carp	23.0

^#Average wholesale prices provided by major wholesalers at the Government Cheung Sha Wan and Western Wholesale Food Markets.

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Vegetables

Vegetables
Type	$ / Catty *	Type	$ / Catty *
.
Flowering Cabbage	4.5	White Cabbage	4.0
Chinese Lettuce	3.9	Chrysanthemum Garland	-
Chinese Kale	7.8	European Celery	5.0
Potato	3.7	Spinach	6.9
Water Cress	9.1	Broccoli	7.3
Green Cabbage	3.6	Tomato	5.1
Pea Shoot	24.9

* Weighted average wholesale prices of average to higher quality vegetables (account for 50% of transaction volume) at the Vegetable Marketing Organization Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Vegetable Market.

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Eggs

Eggs
聽	($ / Egg)^#
Brown-shelled egg (medium) Mainland	0.88
Grade II brown-shelled egg Germany (360/box)	-
Brown-shelled egg (medium) USA	1.09