For the main agricultural products that make up the family table, in March consumers paid an average of 3.13 times more than what producers charged. The indicator, which is a weighted average of the 24 agrifoods that make up the IPOD basket, rose 2.9% when compared to the value for February (3.04).
The monthly increase in the Origin and Destination Price Index (IPOD), considering the seasonality of the products, responds to the fact that the prices paid to the producer rose 7.5%, below what the prices that were paid to them rose. charged the consumer (8.4%).
The steer meat and the eggs they had important increases in consumer prices, but the producer was paid the same or less than in February.
The products that saw their gaps rise the most were: Mandarin (48.1%), cabbage (26.5%), lemon (18.8%) and steer meat (15.3%). In total, 58.3% of the foods measured increased their gaps in the month. On the other hand, 41.7% improved them, with the main decrease in orange (-42.3%) and the carrot (-23.9%).
The data comes from IPOD who elaborates the Regional Economies sector of COMECON based on the prices of origin of the main production areas and a more than 700 prices of each product at destination, surveyed not only in greengrocers and markets by a team of 30 pollsters, but also through online price monitoring of the main hypermarkets in the country, during the second half of the month.
The biggest gaps
In March, the largest gap between the price of origin and destination was for zucchini, with a difference of 10.24 times. It was followed by lemon (9.12 times), red apple (6.51 times) and tangerine, with a gap of 6.17 times. The products with the smallest gaps, meanwhile, were: eggplant (1.72 times), eggs (1.74), chicken (1.80 times), cabbage (2.10) and Swiss chard (2.24).
On the other hand, the producer’s average participation in the final price of the 24 surveyed products fell 3%, to 30.8%. The greatest participation was achieved by the producers of eggplant, which received on average 58.3% of their retail price. The worst happened in zucchini, where the producer obtained only $9.8 of every $100 that the consumer paid for that product.
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Source: Ambito
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