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Insecticides and Rice

Their prices have moved together.

Insecticides (chemical) and Rice (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: crop demand

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Rice paddies in India and Asia are a big market for insecticides against brown planthopper and stem borer. Rice prices, often shaped by government policy, do not track the US index: monthly and yearly moves correlate at 0.00.

  • -0.00 monthly change correlation
  • -0.00 12-month change correlation
  • 0.15 fitted elasticity

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