Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin #9, 9 October 2015

Year of publication2015

AuthorFAO

PublisherFAO

AbstractInternational benchmark prices of maize and wheat firmed up in September. Maize prices increased mostly in response to the downward revisions of the 2015 production forecasts, while wheat prices were supported by concerns about the impact of dry weather on planting of the 2016 winter wheat crop in key producing countries. International quotations of rice declined further mainly resulting from sluggish export demand. In the CIS, the general depreciation of the national currencies continued to put upward pressure on domestic prices of wheat flour in importing and exporting countries but contributed to a sharp decline in export quotations of milling wheat in Kazakhstan. In Central America, the drought-reduced 2015 main season output limited the downward pressure on the prices of white maize from the recently-completed harvests and kept prices at levels above those of a year earlier.

 

Product typeJournal; magazine; bulletin

SeriesFood Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA)

RegionGlobal

ISSN2707-1960

Areas of workGlobal Information and Early Warning System

KeywordsFood prices; market prices; prices; retail prices; wholesale prices; early warning systems; world; cereals; maize; wheat; millets; rice.