Industrial Livestock Farms’ PPI at 51.83%

The Producer Price Index for industrial-scale livestock farms (using the year ending March 2017 as the new base year) stood at 405.97 in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 6.8% and 76% increase compared with the preceding quarter and the same quarter of the year before, respectively.  
Over four-quarter period ending June 21, livestock farms’ PPI increased by 51.83% year-on-year, the Statistical Center of Iran reported. 
PPI for industrial-scale livestock farms had increased by 32.42% in the four-quarter period ending March 20. 
Kurdestan Province posted the highest quarter-on-quarter producer inflation with 16.2% while Khorasan Razavi posted the lowest producer inflation with 2% compared with preceding quarter.
Alborz registered the highest year-on-year producer inflation with 101.2% while Sistan-Baluchestan posted the lowest year-on-year producer inflation of 23.3% in Q1.