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Food Price Index

January 12 , 2021 1408 days 1036 0
  • The Food and Agriculture Organization recently released the Food Price Index.
  • It rose in December 2020 for the seventh month in a row.
  • It measures monthly changes in international prices of cereals, dairy products, oilseeds, meat and sugar.
  • For the year of 2020, the food price index was 97.9 point.
  • This is a three-year high and 3.1 % increase as compared to that of 2019.
  • The historical peak of the food price index occurred in 2011.

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