The price index received by the producers of São Paulo (IqPR) registered a rise of 0.44% in January 2018, compared to December 2017. The products that presented the highest increases in the month’s quotations were: beans (24.89%), (10.52%), maize (8.07%), cotton (6.23%) and peanuts (4.44%), according to the Institute of Agricultural Economics (IEA). Supply.
For beans, rainfall in the main producing regions, mainly in the State of Paraná, reduced the supply of the product at the beginning of the first harvest of 2018, which raised the prices received by the producers. Diseases that affected tomatoes in this rainy season also reduced the supply of this product, raising prices, said Dante Leonel de Camargo Bini, Eder Pinatti, Katia Nachiluk and Rejane Cecília Ramos, IEA researchers.
On the other hand, the products with the highest price declines were: banana nanica (-33.01%), potato (-17.08%), eggs (-13.13%), soybean (-5.52%) and meat of chicken (-4.22%). Low demand caused by recess and high productivity in the producing regions justify the reduction of prices received by producers. Even with the rains, the potato harvest and marketing flows in the producing regions of São Paulo occurred at a pace that supplied the wholesale and retail market without hiccups, reducing the prices received by producers.
Accumulated in the last 12 months
In the last 12 months, the IqPR presented a negative variation, closing at -3.78%. Despite the fact that most of the products fell during the period, the 5.77% devaluation of sugarcane – which has great weight in the calculation of the indicator – pointed out by the researchers as one of the smallest retractions, prevented the index.
In the analyzed period, there were positive variations only: table tomato (59.23%), potato (26.33%) and wheat (4.32%). The other products that lost value in their quotations are: banana nanica (-51.35%), peanut (-42.67%), table orange (-40.03%), orange for industry (-34.24% ), chilled raw milk (-15.10%), beans (-14.08%), coffee (-13.25%), eggs (-13.13%), rice (-12.78%), meat (-9.51%), sugarcane (-5.77%), corn (-5.67%), soybean (-5.52%), cotton (-3.41%), meat of chicken (-3.05%) and beef (-2.73%).