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 first quarter of 2011:

• the Input price index rose by 3.4% compared to the previous quarter and by 6.4% in comparison to the same period of the previous year; comparing the monthly indices with those of the previous period, positive changes took place all over the period.

• the Output price index rose by 3.5% compared to the previous quarter, and by 12.8% in comparison to the same period of the previous year; the monthly indices compared to those of the previous period rose by 13.0% in January, 12.5% in February and by 11.2% in March.