BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The wholesale prices of China's agricultural products edged up Thursday, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

A villager is happy to see a bumper crop of grapes in a smart grape greenhouse in Qingzhou, Weifang of Shandong Province. (Photo: Gmw.cn)

The latest China agricultural product wholesale price index came in at 116.67, up 0.05 points from Wednesday.

By 2 p.m. Thursday, the average wholesale price of pork, a staple meat in China, went down 0.2 percent to 48.88 yuan (about 7 U.S. dollars) per kg, while the price of eggs rose 2.9 percent to 7.19 yuan per kg.

The average wholesale price of 28 key types of vegetables tracked by the government fell 0.2 percent from Wednesday, while that of six different types of fruits climbed 1.1 percent.

The wholesale price index is compiled from data collected from around 200 agricultural wholesale markets and is updated daily based on the weighted average of price indexes for goods including vegetables, fruit, aquatic products, livestock products, cereals, and edible vegetable oil.