# Insecticides and Rice

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/insecticides-and-rice/

[Insecticides](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/insecticides/) (chemical) and [Rice](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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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