Insecticides and Phosphate rock

Their prices have moved together.

Insecticides (chemical) and Phosphate rock (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: organophosphate input

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Organophosphate insecticides such as acephate and chlorpyrifos, used widely on cotton, rice and vegetables, contain phosphorus from phosphate rock. Monthly moves correlate at 0.17 and yearly moves at 0.52 with the pesticides proxy.

• 0.17 monthly change correlation
• 0.52 12-month change correlation
• 0.15 fitted elasticity

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