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Groundnuts and Pulses

Their prices have moved together.

Groundnuts (commodity) and Pulses (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: competing crop

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

In India and Africa, groundnuts and pulses are rain-fed legumes grown on the same plots and hit by the same monsoon. The pulses proxy is a US dry bean index; even so, yearly moves correlate at 0.56 and monthly moves at 0.25.

  • 0.25 monthly change correlation
  • 0.56 12-month change correlation
  • 0.65 fitted elasticity

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