API – Index of the prices of agricultural outputs and inputs – statistics notice (data to January 2022)

14 Apr 2022

• In the 12 months to January 2022, the price index for agricultural inputs increased by 18.6%.
• The largest contributors to the 18.6% change in the price index were fertilisers and soil improvers (8.4 percentage points), followed by energy and lubricants (2.4 percentage points) and compound feeding stuffs (1.9 percentage points).
• Higher prices were recorded for all agricultural inputs with the minor exception of seeds (-0.05 percentage points).
• The price index for agricultural inputs increased by 2.0% in the month to January 2022, compared with an increase of 0.3% in the month to December 2021. This makes January 2022 the nineteenth consecutive month to report price inflation in agricultural inputs.