Archive:EU agricultural prices — a robust field with a long record

Published in Sigma - The Bulletin of European Statistics, 2007/02

Fausto Cardoso, Head of the Crop Statistics Section, and Iulia Pop, responsible for agricultural price and account methodology at Eurostat, are updating the Handbook on EU agricultural price statistics. It will be ready by the end of 2007. Photo: Christine Ardillac

The common agricultural policy first saw the light in 1962 and from the outset it was designed to meet two objectives. The first was to guarantee the food supply in the European Union at lowest possible prices to the consumer. The second was to secure farmers’ incomes with guaranteed prices, which required harmonised statistics on agricultural prices. Eurostat has therefore collected data on agricultural prices since the beginning of the 1960s to analyse price developments and their effect on agricultural income.

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