Producer
Price Index - Agriculture
1st Quarter 2009
Overall index
The PPI-A stood at 150.3 in March 2009, following increases of 2.6%, 6.3% and 0.6% in January, February and March 2009 respectively.
Sugar cane
The index for “Sugar cane” for the period July 2008 to March 2009 remained the same at 126.5 as no change was registered in the provisional price of sugar for the 2008/2009 crop. It is to be noted that the index will be revised at the end of June 2009 when the final price is available.
Other crop products
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In January 2009, the index for “Other crop products” went up by
12.0%, due to the combined effects of increases in the prices fresh vegetables
(+21.3%), fruits (+8.7%) and decreases in the prices of root crops (-12.4%)
and flowers and ornamental plants (-5.8%).
- In February 2009, the index moved up by 30.3% as a result of the following
price changes in: fresh vegetables (+51.0%), fruits (+2.8%), root crops (-32.9%).
- The index went up by 2.2 % in March 2009 mainly as a consequence of an increase
of 5.5% in prices fresh vegetables and a drop of 17.0%in the prices of fruits.
- The prices of fresh vegetables were high in January, February and March
2009 due to high prices of beans, cabbage, carrots and tomato.
Animals and animal products
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In January 2009, the index for “Animals and animal products” was
1.4% higher. This was due to increases in the prices of poultry (+0.6%), eggs
(+4.2%) and pigs (+6.1%).
- The index rose by 0.2% in February 2009 due to an increase of 0.7% in the
prices of eggs.
- Decrease of 0.3% in the price of eggs caused the index to go down by 0.1
% in March 2009.
2. Quarterly index
During the first quarter of 2009, the PPI-A increased by 5.3% compared to the previous quarter. This was due to higher prices of fresh vegetables (+ 41.8%), fruits (+11.6%), pigs (+6.1%), eggs (+5.0%), partially offset by decreases in the prices of root crops (-21.9%) and flowers and ornamental plants (-7.2%).
Compared to the first quarter of 2008, the index increased by 4.4%.
3. Yearly index
In 2008, producer
prices of agricultural products were on the average 4.0% higher than in 2007.
More: Producer Price Index - Agriculture- 1st Quarter 2009
Introduction
Table 1 : Monthly indices by commodity groups and products, January 2007 - March 2009
Table 2 : Percentage changes from previous month by commodity groups and products , April 2008 - March 2009
Table 3 : Percentage changes from corresponding month of previous year by commodity groups and products, April 2008 - March 2009
Table 4: Quarterly indices by commodity groups and products, 2nd Quarter 2007 - 1st Quarter 2009
Table 5: Quarterly changes (%) and net contributions of commodity groups and products to the change, 1st Quarter 2008 - 1st Quarter 2009
Table 6 : Annual indices, annual changes (%) and net contributions of commodity groups and products to the change, 2006 - 2008
Table 7: Monthly indices for the Agricultural Sector, January 2002 - March 2009
Table 8: Monthly indices for the Agricultural Sector, January 1993 - March 2009
Annex
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