Industrial Livestock Farms’ PPI Inflation at 17.77%

The Producer Price Index for industrial-scale livestock farms (using 2011 as the base year) stood at 509.96 in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 20-June 20), indicating a 1.96% and 1.5% increase compared with the preceding quarter and the same quarter of the last year, respectively.  
Over the four-quarter period ending June 20, livestock farms’ PPI increased 17.77% year-on-year, the Statistical Center of Iran reported. 
PPI for industrial-scale livestock farms increased 36.16% in the four-quarter period ending March 19. 
Golestan posted the sharpest producer deflation with 5.34% compared with the preceding quarter while Yazd posted the highest quarter-on-quarter producer inflation with 13.5%.
Markazi Province posted the sharpest year-on-year producer deflation of 13.31% while Yazd registered the highest year-on-year producer inflation with 23.28% in Q1.