The index of prices received by producers from São Paulo (IqPR) registered a small increase of 0.16% in February 2018, compared to the previous month. The products that presented the highest increases were: table tomato (51.71%), eggs (19.67%), banana nanica (10.6%), wheat (7.06%) and cotton , informs the Institute of Agricultural Economics (IEA), of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply.
According to the pulp technicians, diseases that affected the tomatoes provoked by the high humidity in this period of summer rains reduced the productivity of the plantations, which raised the prices of tomatoes to the table. In the last two months, the product has already valued 67.68%. As for eggs, the increase may be justified by the increase in demand due to Lent. According to Eder Pinatti, Danton Leonel de Camargo Bini, Katia Nachiluk and Rejane Cecília Ramos, researchers from the IEA, in a reversal movement after falling in January, the accumulated figure for the last two months is 1.74%.
The products with the highest price declines were orange (-20.2%), beans (-10.7%), pork (-8.57%), rice (-5.75%) and table orange (5.02%). For orange for industry, the low demand for processed product is the main justification for the fall in product prices. According to data collected daily by the IEA, in the bimester the product accumulates fall of 17.33%. Regarding the beans, the remaining stocks of the previous harvest and the increase in supply, due to the expansion of the harvest in states like Minas Gerais and Goiás, reversed the price curve. Even so, considering the low availability of the product in January 2018, in the accumulated of the last two months the product quoted in the regions of São Paulo showed an increase of 11.53%.
Accumulated in the last 12 months
In the period from March 2017 to February 2018, the IqPR showed the highest increase in the first month of the series (+3.92). On the other hand, the biggest fall (-3.65%) occurred in June 2017, caused by the falls of oranges – for industry and for table -, potatoes and table tomatoes. In the accumulated of the last 12 months, the IqPR registered a fall of -5.13%. Despite the fact that the absolute majority of the products presented a fall in the accumulated of this interval, the fact that the tomato to the table had valued 130.17% (greater variation) a more pronounced drop for IqPR.