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 (1/4/2025)

Supply of livestock and poultry today

Supply of livestock and poultry
	Live pig*	Live cattle*	Live chicken^#
	(head)	(head)	(bird)
Mainland	3,030	51	0 (0^)
Local	227	-	8,806 (0^)
Total supply	3,257	51	8,806 (0^)

* 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.

Supply of marine fish today

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

77.28 tonnes

Supply of freshwater fish today

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

106.32 tonnes

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

Supply of vegetables
	(Tonnes)
VMO*	130.62
Government wholesale markets^#	610.61

* 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.

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.

Wholesale prices of major fresh food (average reference figures) (1/4/2025)

Livestock

Livestock
	($ / Catty)
Live pig*	11.91
Live cattle^#	50.28

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

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

Poultry

Poultry
	Live chicken^#
	($ / 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: $ 26.0/Catty.

Marine fish

Marine fish
Type	$ / Catty*	Type	$ / Catty*
.
Golden thread	76	Horse head	46
Yellow croaker	84	Big eyes	96
Scads	16	Breams	50
Hairtail	50	Mackerel	58
Croakers	16	Filefish	42

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

Freshwater fish^#

Freshwater fish
Type	$ / Catty^#
.
Grass carp	18.7
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.

Vegetables

Vegetables
Type	$ / Catty *	Type	$ / Catty *
.
Flowering Cabbage	4.5	White Cabbage	4.0
Chinese Lettuce	3.8	Chrysanthemum Garland	18.0
Chinese Kale	5.7	European Celery	6.8
Potato	4.0	Spinach	7.0
Water Cress	6.7	Broccoli	8.5
Green Cabbage	4.7	Tomato	5.0
Pea Shoot	22.3

* 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.