# Groundnuts and Pulses

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/groundnuts-and-pulses/

[Groundnuts](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/groundnuts/) (commodity) and [Pulses](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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.