Agricultural products prices

The agricultural price indices provide information on trends in purchase prices of the means of production  and producer prices of agricultural products. Since January 2009 indices are calculated with reference to the base year 2005.

In the second quarter of 2012:

• the Input price index rose by 1.1% compared to the previous quarter and by 2.9% in comparison to the same period of the previous year; the monthly indices compared to those of the previous year rose by 2.8% in April, by 3.3% in May and by 2.5% in June;
• the Output price index decreased by 1.1% compared to the previous quarter and rose by 0.5% in comparison to the same period of the previous year; the monthly indices compared to those of the previous year decreased by 2.0% in April, by 1.5% in May and rose by 2.9% in June.