# Fungicides and Zinc

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/fungicides-and-zinc/

[Fungicides](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/fungicides/) (chemical) and [Zinc](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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.