Price Statistics

 

       

Prices are an important economic variable in market economy. From the economic analysis point of view, prices are the means of aggregation for providing an overview of the performance taking various products with large number of variation in their qualities. Prices of agricultural products and by-products have a significant influence on formulation of production plans and policy decisions relating to taxes levied on agricultural income & subsidies provide to farmers on agricultural inputs. In many countries type and volume of agricultural production activity very much depend on the current market prices of various products. The relative changes in prices received by the farmers for the produce and paid by them for meeting input requirement and consumer demands influence their economic activities.

 

Operation of the Scheme

 

The Time Series Data on various are prices are of immense use for building  up different economic indicators and models through which the oscillation of the economy could be perceived. The price collection schemes is in operation since 1975 in the Directorate of Economics and Statistics,, Odisha.

 

Objective

The objectives for collection of the price data through different schedules are as follows:

  •         To collect and compile Price Statistics.

  •         To study price movement of various commodities.

  •         To prepare State Weighted Average Farm Harvest Price for onward transmission to the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi.

  •         To prepare Annual State Weighted Average Wholesale Price to be used in different publications like Economic Survey of Odisha, Statistical Abstract and for the compilation of State Domestic Product as well as District Domestic Product.

  •         To prepare the monthly Consumer Price Index (Rural) & (Urban) of the State as per   instruction and guidance of the C.S.O.  

  •         To prepare the Annual State Average price & District Average price on Live Stocks, its   products and by-products, cattle feed for the compilation of State Domestic Product as well as District Domestic Product.

 

Scope and Coverage

 

The entire State covering all Subdivisions and almost all crops produced in the State along with other items and items on various domestic animals and birds, animal products and by-products, meat, fish, egg, milk and milk products have been brought under the scope of price collection.At present, coverage in respect of area and items for each type of work are as follows:

 

I.        Farm Harvest prices of 124 items  Agricultural commodities (116 Specified and 8 unspecified) are regularly collected on monthly basis from 116 selected feeding villages tagged with 116 primary markets under  Schedule-1.

 

II.   Producers’ prices in respect of 124 items (116 specified and 8 un-specified) of agricultural commodities are also collected in Schedule-1 from the selected 116 feeding village or primary market.

 

III.    Wholesale prices in respect of 124 items (116 specified and 8 un-specified) of agricultural commodities are collected in Schedule-2 either from the selected primary markets or from the business centres like Mundies, Mills etc. in every month. . 

 

IV.    Data on Producers’ prices of Animals & Birds and prices of agricultural machineries are collected monthly in respect of 54 items under Schedule-4 from only one selected cattle market in each district.

 

V.    Producers’ prices of Milk & Milk product, Meat, Fish & Egg in respect of 41 items are collected in Schedule-5 from only one centre i.e. district headquarter in each district.

 

VI.    The Producers’ prices of Animal product & By-product of 19 items are collected in Schedule-6 (16 specified and 3 un-specified) from the district headquarters of each district.

 

VII.    The Producers’ prices of Animal product & By-product of 19 items are also collected in Schedule-6 from the District Headquarters of the State.

 

VIII.    The Wholesale prices of cattle feed of 20 items (16 specified and 4 un-specified) are collected in Schedule-7 from 30 district headquarters of the state.

 

     Utility of Price data for the benefit of the State and people:

 

Activities

Data Collection

 

 

i.        Price data are collected regularly by SO/ASO/Investigator/SSFI/ SFI at the district level both for Rural and Urban area for different commodities from the rural and urban centres and cattle markets.

ii.        Compilation of different indicators as mentioned in the objective of the scheme.

 

        The price data are being used for the following purposes.

i.         Estimation of State Income.

ii.        Fixation of procurement and support prices.

iii.        Construction of parity indices.

iv.        Preparation of Producers’ price indices.

v.        Taking up adhoc studies on the economic condition of farmers and other analytical studies.

 PRICE STATISTICS OF ODISHA - 2014 

Farm Harvest Price and Wholesale Price up to 2018-19