Fungicides and Zinc

Zinc is a raw material for fungicides; their prices have moved together.

Fungicides (chemical) and Zinc (commodity): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Zinc → Fungicides

Fungicides is made from zinc: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: mancozeb metal

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Mancozeb, a widely used fungicide in India, contains zinc as well as manganese. Monthly moves correlate at 0.07 with the proxy, and at 0.27 over the last five years, a weak but positive link.

• 0.07 monthly change correlation
• -0.07 12-month change correlation
• 0.11 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.