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 (.)

Supply of livestock and poultry today

Supply of livestock and poultry
	Live pig*	Live cattle*	Live chicken^#
	(head)	(head)	(bird)
Mainland	.	.	..
Local	.	.	..
Total supply	.	.	..

* 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:

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:

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

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

* 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:

^@ Account for about 50% of market share.

Wholesale prices of major fresh food (average reference figures) (.)

Livestock

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

* 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	.

# 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: $ ./Catty.

Marine fish

Marine fish
Type	$ / Catty*	Type	$ / Catty*
.

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

Freshwater fish^#

Freshwater fish
Type	$ / Catty^#
.

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

Vegetables

Vegetables
Type	$ / Catty *	Type	$ / Catty *
.

* 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.

Eggs

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

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