Afghanistan:
All prices are consumer prices.
Albania:
Figs, Oranges, Tangerines, Mandarines, Clementines, Satsma, Lemons and Limes, Grapes, Apples, Pears, Apricots, Cherries, Peaches and Nectarines, Plums are mixed wholesale and producer prices.
Chestnuts, Soybeans, Sunflower seed, Olives, Tomatoes, Onions and Shallots, Onions, Garlic, Carrots, Leeks and other alliac.veg, Cauliflower, Cabbages, Lettuce, Cucumbers and Gherkins, Peas, Beans, Eggplants, Chillies and Peppers, Spinach, Pumpkin, Squash, Gourds, Watermelons, Cantaloupes and other Melons are wholesale prices.
Algeria:
Wheat: hard wheat administered prices.
Barley, Oats: administered prices.
Dates: dried dates, nour variety.
Sheep meat: Lambs.
Wholesale prices for most of the commodities
Argentina:
Prices of Sweet Potatoes, Cassava, Asparagus, Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds, Chillies & Peppers, Bananas, Grapefruit, Peaches, Plums, Strawberries, Watermelons, Cantaloupes are wholesale prices.
Armenia:
Prices of wine, table wine, quality wine are consumer prices.
Australia:
The annual prices reported are the weighted average Gross Unit Values (GUV) for the financial year. (GUV is defined as the total gross value of production of the commodity, at wholesale prices received in the market places, divided by the total reported production quantity).
Grapes: Wine grapes only (major component of total grapes production).
Animal Live Weight: values estimated based on the average ratio of conversion of each category of animal to meat produced, as advised by the meat industry.
Austria:
Prices of Gooseberries, Hops, Tobacco, Wool and Duck Meat, Geese Meat are based on Unit Values from the Economic Accounts of Agriculture.
- Oilseeds nes: Pumpkin-seed for Oil.
Azerbaijan:
Azerbaijan changed data collection method and revised all time series since 2003. Collected data are consumer prices.
Bangladesh:
Prices refer to crop year and not the calendar year. E.g. 1999 prices refer to the 1998/1999 crop year.
Barbados:
All prices are wholesale prices.
Belarus:
Hen Eggs: Prices of all kinds of eggs, including hen eggs.
Sheep: Price of Sheep and Goats.
Goat: Price of Sheep and Goats.
Cow milk, whole, fresh accounts for all milk.
Belgium:
Tobacco: prices do not include direct subsidies on the product, as per the countries’ new method.
A change of data source occurred in 2006 for some series: as of that year, prices are taken directly from Eurostat. Before that year, prices were provided to FAO directly by the member country.
Belgium-Luxembourg:
Tobacco: prices do not include direct subsidies on the product, as per the countries’ new method.
Bolivia:
All prices are consumer prices except for Wheat, Paddy Rice, Maize, Soya and Oilseeds n.e.c. that are producer prices.
Lemons and Limes: Prices of Limes only.
Bhutan:
All prices are retail prices.
Meat nes: Yak meat.
Nutmeg, Mace, Cardamom: Cardamom only.
Brazil:
Brazil changed currency twice in the period 1991-2001.
Nuts nes: Pinhão (Pine Nut)
Rapeseed: Canola
Oranges: from 1993 to 1997 price of Oranges is the average of prices from FGV. Since 1998 it is the average of prices from IEA-CEPEA market.
Coffee green: from 1993 to 1997 price of Coffee green is the average of prices from FGV. Since 1998 it is average of prices of “café beneficiado” from CEPEA-USP.
Tea: green leaves
Mate: green leaves
Jute-Like Fibres: Malva
Eggs, other then Hen eggs: Quail eggs
Natural Rubber: liquid latex
Natural Gums: Sorva
Bulgaria:
A new methodology to conduct survey for collecting agricultural producer prices was introduced in 2007. This methodology focuses on the price of the produce intended for direct human consumption and which is sold at considerably higher prices. Hence, producer price data from 2007 onwards could be higher than in the previous years.
All fruits and vegetable prices are unit values.
Pimento, All spices: Price of Herbs.
Cattle: Price of Beef and Buffaloes up to 2000, from 2001 only cattle.
Buffalo: Price of Beef and Buffaloes up to 2000, from 2001 only buffalo.
Sheep: Price of Sheep and Goats up to 1999, from 2000 only sheep.
Goat Live Weight: Price of Sheep and Goats up to 1999, from 2000 only goats.
Burkina Faso:
Sorghum: in 2004 Price of Sorghum is the average price of white sorghum and red sorghum.
Burundi:
Rice, Paddy: average prices of “Iron” and “Karundi” varieties from 2002 onwards, price of white rice until 2001.
Vegetables fresh nes: “Irengalenga”
Bananas: average prices of “Ibigurube” and “Utumaramasenge” varieties from 2002 onwards, prices of ripe bananas until 2001.
Plantains: green bananas.
Fruit nes: “Maracudja” and “Prunes de Japon”.
Coffee : Robusta only.
Cambodia:
All prices are wholesale prices.
Cambodia provided administered prices for Cassava in 2006 and 2007 (100000 and 250000 KHR, respectively)
Cameroon:
Prices of Maize, Millet, Sorghum, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Cassava, Yams, Root and Tubers, Dry Beans, Soybeans, Groundnuts in Shell, Oil Palm Fruit, Palm Kernels, Oil of Palm, Oil of Palm Kernels, Sesame Seed, are wholesale prices.
Countrystat data has been used when available and consistent with existing FAOSTAT data
Canada:
Buckwheat: prices refer to crop years instead of calendar years.
Canary Seeds: prices refer to crop years instead of calendar years; prices prior to 1998 are estimates based on farmers’ cash receipts.
Broad beans, dry: prices refer to crop years instead of calendar years.
Linseed: prices refer to crop years instead of calendar years.
Honey: prices are unit values.
Sheep meat and live weight: price of sheep only, excluding lambs.
Chile:
Data on fruits, vegetables, tobacco, live animals, eggs and wine are wholesale prices.
China:
Crop prices are wholesale prices while livestock prices are either wholesale or retail.
Jute-like fibres: Kenaf fibre.
Colombia:
Price of Wheat, Maize, Barley, Rice, Sorghum, Dry beans, Sesame seed, Soya Beans, Sugar cane, Lentils, Oil Palm Fruit are guaranteed prices.
Cassava; Potatoes; Yams; Beans, dry; Tomatoes; Onions, dry; Garlic; Carrots; Cauliflower; Cabbages; Lettuce; Cucumbers and Gherkins; Beans, green; Eggplants; Chillies and Peppers, Green; Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds; Watermelons; Bananas; Plantains; Pineapples; Avocados; Mangoes; Oranges; Lemons and Limes; Papayas; Apples, Pears; Peaches and Nectarines; Strawberries are wholesale prices.
Green coffee: average domestic price. Source ICO for 2003.
Congo (Republic of):
Semi-official data are unit values derived from the tables on the values of agriculture production in the “L’Économie congolaise”, from the “Centre National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques”.
Cook Islands:
Fruit Tropical Fresh nes: Noni (Morinda Citrofolia).
Costarica:
Tobacco price refers to “Banda” variety.
Cote d’Ivoire:
Prices for coffee green, cocoa, seed cotton, kola nuts and natural rubber refer to administered prices.
Countrystat data has been used when available and consistent with existing FAOSTAT data
Czech Republic:
Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia in January 1993.
Wheat: average of wheat for human food and for animal feed.
Barley: average of barley for human food and for animal feed.
Flax: price refers to Flax Straw, retted.
Prices of Cattle, Pig, Duck, Turkey, Rabbit, Chicken meat and live weight are wholesale prices.
Croatia:
Croatia declared its independence in 1991. Price data are available from 1994 onwards due to the war that started in 1991 and subsequent hyper-inflation. Data were compiled and made regularly available after the introduction of the new currency, the Kuna, which took place in 1994.
All data are unit values.
Mixed grain: including sorghum, millet, buckwheat and other cereals.
Oranges and mandarins: from 1994 until 1997 oranges and mandarins we collected together.
Watermelons: including musk melons.
Cyprus:
All figures for 2009 are provisional.
Vegetable fresh nes include beetroots and celery.
Production of spinach and lettuce is in 1000 bundles instead of MT
Ecuador:
Maize: Maize for human consumption.
El Salvador:
Coffee, green: source used is International Coffee Organization from 1993 onwards.
Prices may not only refer to producer prices but also to wholesale or retail prices.
Eritrea:
In 1993 Ethiopia PDR split into Ethiopia and Eritrea. Prices of 1991 and 1992 of Ethiopia PDR can be found under country code 62.
All Prices are consumer prices.
Estonia:
Prices are Unit Value prices
Cattle Live Weight: Price of Cattle for Slaughter.
Pig Live Weight: Price of Pigs for Slaughter.
Chicken Live Weight: Price of Chicken for Slaughter.
Ethiopia:
In 1993 Ethiopia PDR split into Ethiopia and Eritrea. Prices of 1991 and 1992 of Ethiopia PDR can be found under country code 62. No price data collection took place in 1993 so all prices are estimated for that year. 1994 prices are averages of four months only.
Fiji:
Prices are unit values.
France:
All prices are based on Unit Values from the Economic Accounts of Agriculture.
Georgia:
Due to the absence of primary data on prices received by farmers, data from 1997 to 2003 are given equalling to 80 percent of corresponding consumer prices. Prices for 2006-2008 are the average unit prices obtained by dividing total sales of all varieties of the product by total quantity sold. The data are obtained from the sample survey of agricultural holdings and are available only from 2006 when the survey started.
Germany:
Prices of Biological Cattle Meat, Wool, Biological Sheep Meat and Biological Pig Meat are Unit Values from the Economic Accounts of Agriculture, from Eurostat Database.
Ghana:
Prices of Maize, Millet, Sorghum, Cassava, Taro, Yams, Oil of Palm, Tomatoes, Onions Dry, Bananas, Plantains and Hen Eggs are wholesale prices.
Honduras:
Green Coffee: Prices of Café Verde “Oro”
Pig meat and Chicken Meat prices are Consumer Prices
Hungary:
Producer prices are provided as procurement prices. The source of official producer price data of agricultural products is monthly questionnaires on the procurement activity of enterprises that acquire agricultural products for processing or resale purposes, and the monthly survey of agricultural crop and livestock markets, conducted by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
Apples: mainly apples for industrial use.
Pimento: Hungarian red spice and paprika.
India:
Prices are simple averages of farm harvest prices across states. Prices in 2007 and 2008 refer to Minimum Support Prices.
Iraq:
Cereals and potatoes prices are wholesale prices.
Ireland:
Official prices for vegetables and potatoes are wholesale prices.
Israel:
All prices are unit values.
Nuts nes: Pecan nuts.
Tomatoes: for fresh market only.
Italy:
All prices from 2002 onwards are unit values from Economic Accounts of Agriculture, from Eurostat Database
Jamaica:
Coffee, green: the farm gate price for Blue Mountain coffee is used.
Japan:
Cattle meat: price of Kobe beef
Potatoes; Sweet potatoes; Yams; Taro (cocoyam); Chestnuts; Tomatoes; Onions and Shallots, Green; Onions, Dry; Garlic; Carrots; Leeks and Oth.Alliac.Veg; Cabbages; Lettuce; Cucumbers and Gherkins; Peas, Green; Beans, Green; String Beans; Asparagus; Eggplants; Chillies and Peppers, Green; Spinach
Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds; Green Corn (Maize); Watermelons; Cantaloupes and other Melons; Pineapples; Oranges; Tangerines, Mandarines, Clementines, Satsma; Grapes; Apples; Pears; Apricots; Cherries; Peaches and Nectarines; Plums; Strawberries; Kiwi Fruit; Persimmons; Ginger are mixed producer and wholesale prices.
Cauliflower; Broad Beans, green; Mushrooms; Bananas; Lemons and Limes are wholesale prices.
Kenya:
Prices of wheat, barley, oats, millet, sorghum, all starchy roots, dry beans and live animals are unit values.
Coffee and tea prices are auction prices.
Korea, Republic:
Pulses nes: Bean sprout (soybean).
Tea nes: Fresh Ginseng.
Price of Vegetables fresh nes: average prices of young radish and radish.
Following a change of methodology, data series have been revised for some commodities such as millet, tomatoes, potatoes, leading to significant changes in 2006.
Latvia:
Latvia became independent from the USSR in 1991.
Prices are available from 1992 onwards.
Lebanon:
Price data were collected from 1995.
Lithuania:
Prices of 1992 are expressed in Talonas; from 1993 onwards prices are expressed in Litai.
Wheat: food wheat prices, since 2000 according to EU methodology.
Barley: feed barley prices, since 2000 according to EU methodology.
Potatoes: main crop food potatoes
Sugar beet: prices are unit values
Cabbage: white cabbage prices, since 2000 according to EU methodology.
Currants: black currants
Cow Milk: 3.4 fat, 3% protein content, since 2000 according to EU methodology.
Chicken meat and live weight: poultry price until 1999, price of chicken only since 2000.
Luxembourg:
Prices of Horse Live Weight are unit values from Economic Accounts of Agriculture, from Eurostat Database.
Grapes: Grapes for wine.
Macedonia:
Macedonia declared its independence in November 1991.
Price data were collected from 1992 onwards.
Malaysia:
Source of Rubber prices: Malaysian Rubber Board.
Natural Rubber: domestic price of « bulk latex ».
Dry Rubber: average price of RSS1, RSS3 and SMR20 FOB prices.
Prices of all Indigenous meats are wholesale prices.
Malawi:
Countrystat data has been used when available and consistent with existing FAOSTAT data
Mali:
Pulses nes: sugar pea.
Countrystat data has been used when available and consistent with existing FAOSTAT data
Malta:
Prices in local currency units in 2008 show variation from previous years due to a change in national currency.
Mauritius:
Sugar cane: prices paid to planters.
Prices of Sweet potatoes, Cassava, Taro, pineapples and of all vegetables - except onions, and garlic - are wholesale prices.
Mexico:
Walnuts: Nuez de Castilla.
Nuts nes: average price of Macadamia nuts and Pecan.
Coffee: price of coffee Cereza.
Tomatoes: Green Tomatoes.
Tangerines, Mandarines, Clementines, Satsma: Mandarines only.
Lemons and Limes: Limes only.
Morocco:
Onions and shallots, green; Onions, dry; Carrots; Cauliflower, Cabbages; Cucumbers and Gherkins; Peas, green; String Beans; Broad Beans, green; Artichokes; Eggplants (aubergines); Chillies and Peppers, green; Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds; Watermelons, Cantaloupes and other Melons; Bananas; Figs; Avocadoes; Lemons and Limes; Grapes; Apples; Pears; Quinces; Apricots are wholesale prices.
Nepal:
Prices are a mix of wholesale and consumer prices.
Prices refer to crop year and not the calendar year. E.g. 1998 prices refer to the 1997/1998 crop year.
Livestock prices: price data collected in local markets.
Sheep live weight: Ram only.
Netherlands:
Prices of Maize and Goat live weight are Unit Values from the Economic Accounts of Agriculture, while Prices of the other commodities are Selling Prices at the Farmgate, all from Eurostat database
New Zealand:
Reference period is year ending June for the following commodities: Cereals; Potatoes; Onions, dry; Peas, green; Asparagus; Squash; Avocadoes; Tangerines, Mandarins, Clementines; Lemons & Limes; Grapes; Apricots; Cherries; Strawberries; Currants; Persimmons;
Nicaragua:
Prices of Cattle Meat, Pig meat and Hen Eggs are wholesale prices.
Coffee, green: used source is International Coffee Organization database.
Niger:
Spices nes: Souchet (cyperus esculentus) - local name for chufa, tiger nut, earth of almond or yellow nutsedge.
Nigeria:
Countrystat data has been used when available and consistent with existing FAOSTAT data.
Norway:
Vegetables, fresh nes refers to price of kohlrabi.
Currants: Price refers to black currant.
Meat nes price refers to price of reindeer meat (tame reindeer)
Pakistan:
All prices are wholesale prices.
Pulses nes: Mash pulse.
Dry Beans: Mung pulse.
Chick Peas: Gram.
Cattle and Buffalo: Adult (Dry) for Slaughter.
Sheep and Goat: Males for Slaughter.
Poultry: Broiler for Slaughter.
Paraguay:
Geese: guinea fowl.
Peru:
Maize: average price of “Maiz Amarillo Duro” and “Maiz Amilaceo”.
Other Camel (meat and live weight): Alpaca.
Tang.Mand.Clement.Satsma reflects prices of mandarins only
Limes and lemons reflects prices of limes only
Peaches and nectarines reflects prices of peaches only
Philippines:
Yams: Ube (purple yams)
Beans, dry: Mungo, green.
Cow peas, dry: Bush Sitao (Paayap)
Pigeon peas: Kadios, dry
Nuts, nes: Pili nuts without shellChillies & Peppers, Green: panigang (green finger pepper).
Melons: muskmelon
Vegetables, nes: average price of Pechay baguio, Pechay native, Raddish and Turnips.
Grapefruits and pomelos: pomelos only
Citrus fruit nes: calamondin or calamansi.
Natural rubber: coagulated rubber, cuplump.
Price of Coffee Green: is the prices average of Arabica, Robusta and Excelsa Coffee- Dry Beans.
Portugal:
Wheat: price of soft wheat.
Cattle Live Weight: price of Calves Live Weight.
Sheep Live Weight: Price of Fattening Lambs Live Weight.
A change of data source occurred in 2006: as of that year, prices are taken directly from Eurostat. Before that year, prices were provided to FAO directly by the member country.
Qatar:
All data are unit values.
Romania:
Barley; Oats; Maize; Potatoes; Tomatoes; Cucumbers and Gherkins; Peas, Green; Beans, Green; Grapes; Hen eggs with shell; Natural Honey are a mixture of producer and wholesale prices. Beans, dry; Peas, dry; Walnuts; Onions, Dry; Garlic; Carrots; Leeks and Oth.Alliac.Veg; Cauliflower; Cabbages; Lettuce; Eggplants; Mushrooms; Chillies and Peppers, Green; Spinach; Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds; Chicory Roots; Watermelons; Cantaloupes and other Melons; Apples; Pears; Apricots; Cherries; Sour Cherries; Peaches and Nectarines; Plums; Strawberries are wholesale prices.
Russian Federation:
Vegetables nec: Table beet
Apples, Pears, Quinces: Prices of Seed Fruit.
Apricots, Sour Cherries, Cherries, Peaches, Plums: Prices of Stone Fruit.
Strawberries, Raspberries, Gooseberries, Currants: Prices of Berries.
Indigenous Sheep Meat, Indigenous Goat Meat: Price of Sheep and Goat.
Rwanda:
Prices are unit values.
Prices of 1994 are entirely estimated.
Saudi Arabia:
All prices are consumer prices.
Prices are collected from 1999.
Wheat: procurement Price.
Saint Lucia:
Prices of all products are wholesales prices.
Yautia (cocoyam): tannia variety
Taro (coco yam): dasheen variety
Coconuts: dry coconuts.
Serbia Montenegro:
Price data are available from 1994 onwards. Data were compiled and made regularly available after the introduction of the new currency, the Serbian Dinar.
Slovakia:
Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia in January 1993. Prices are available from 1993 onwards.
Cabbages: price of White Cabbage, Quality I.
Grapes: price of Wine Grapes.
Pimento, All spice: Red Pepper.
Melons: price of Roth Melon.
Cattle meat: Price of Bulls for slaughter.
Sheep meat: price of Fattened lambs for slaughter.
Pig meat: price of Pigs for slaughter.
Slovenia:
Slovenia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991. Prices are available from 1991 onwards.
Sri Lanka:
Tea prices from 1991 to 1998 are Colombo City prices and from 1999 onwards are average green leaf prices.
Sudan:
Price data are wholesale prices.
Tea nes: Kerkadih or Karkadé.
Cotton Lint: ICCO prices of Barakat cotton.
Suriname:
Prices are all consumer prices except Paddy rice that is a harvest price.
Price of raw milk: price received by the farmer when the milk is delivered to the processing plant.
Sweden:
Prices of Honey and Wool are Unit Values from the Economic Accounts of Agriculture.
Syria:
Wheat, Barley, Maize, Sugar Beets: Producer Prices.
All other price data are consumer prices.
Cotton lint: ICCO prices from 1997 onwards.
Thailand:
Dry beans: Mung beans.
Tobacco: Virginia, cured.
Togo:
Bambara bean: voandzou (local name)
Prices are for agricultural marketing year
Countrystat data has been used when available and consistent with existing FAOSTAT data
Trinidad and Tobago:
Yautia (Cocoyam or Tannia): Eddoe variety.
Taro (coco yam): Dasheen variety.
Green beans: bodi.
Coffee, green: source International Coffee Organization database.
Cow milk: price paid by major purchasers.
Tunisia:
Grape: grape for wine production.
Turkmenistan:
Price data are available only from 1997 onwards.
United Kingdom:
Barley: Barley feed.
Prices of Triticale, Gooseberries, Duck Meat, Turkey Meat, Chicken Meat, Horse Meat and Honey are basic prices.
Prices of Cabbages, Asparagus, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Onions, Onions dry, Leeks, Beans Green, Peas Green, Broad Beans Green, Carrots, Mushrooms, Vegetables Fresh nes, Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Strawberries, Currants, Berries nes, are wholesale prices.
Prices of Hops are Unit Values from the Economic Accounts of Agriculture.
Uruguay:
Potatoes; Sweet Potatoes; Tomatoes; Onions, dry; Garlic; Carrots; Chillies and Peppers, Green; Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds; Green Corn (Maize); Watermelons; Cantaloupes and other Melons; Oranges; Tangerines, Mandarines, Clementines, Satsma; Grapefruit and Pomelos; Lemons and Limes; Grapes; Apples; Pears; Quinces; Peaches and Nectarines; Plums; Wool, not carded, greasy; Hen eggs, with shell; Beeswax are wholesale prices.
USA:
Nuts nes: Pecan nuts
Peas, dry: Field peas.
Green beans: Lima beans.
String beans: Snap beans.
Onion and leeks and okra prices refer to California only.
Price of Pumpkins from 1996to1999 refer to California only.
Lettuce and chicory price refer to lettuce only.
Vegetable n.e.c. refers to Celery only.
Grapefruit (inc.pomelos): Grapefruit only.
Cherries: Sweet Cherries.
Tobacco unmanifactured: Crop Year Prices.
Lemons and Limes: price of lemons only.
Sour cherries: Tart cherries.
Chicken Live Weight: Broilers.
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