Glossary

This section collects the names and description of indicators and the variables to compute them defined and generated by the various partner organizations: OECD, WB, and FAO/MAFAP. Click on the indicator for more detail.

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Producer Support Estimate

The Producer Support Estimate (PSE) is an indicator of the annual monetary value of gross transfers from consumers and taxpayers to support agricultural producers, measured at farm gate level, arising from policy measures, regardless of their nature, objectives or impacts on farm production or income.

Context: The PSE measures support arising from policies targeted to agriculture relative to a situation without such policies — i.e., when producers are subject only to general policies (including economic, social, environmental and tax policies) of the country.

The PSE is a gross notion implying that any costs associated with those policies and incurred by individual producers are not deducted. It is also a nominal assistance notion meaning that increased costs associated with import duties on inputs are not deducted. But it is an indicator net of producer contributions to help finance the policy measure (e.g. producer levies) providing a given transfer to producers. The PSE includes implicit and explicit transfers.

The percentage PSE (%PSE) is the ratio of the PSE to the value of total gross farm receipts, measured by the value of total farm production (at farm gate prices), plus budgetary support.

The nomenclature and definitions of this indicator replaced the former Producer Subsidy Equivalent in 1999.


Producer price

A producer price is the average price or unit value received by farmers in the domestic market for a specific agricultural commodity produced within a specified 12-month period. This price is measured at the farm gate — that is, at the point where the commodity leaves the farm — and therefore does not incorporate the costs of transport and processing.


Price Levies

Sometimes termed production taxes, which can be imposed on producers as part of market price support policy.

Examples:

  • Levy imposed on EU milk producers when they exceed their production quotas.
  • Levies charged on producers to finance some of the cost of export subsidization.

LV is an observed value, which is obtained from the information on budgetary expenditures.


Percentage PSE

PSE as a share of gross farm receipts (including support).


Producer Nominal Assistance Co-efficient

The Producer Nominal Assistance Co-efficient (NACp) is an indicator of the nominal rate of assistance to producers measuring the ratio between the value of gross farm receipts including support and gross farm receipts valued at world market prices without support


Producer Nominal Protection Co-efficient

The Producer Nominal Protection Co-efficient (NPC) is an indicator of the nominal rate of protection for producers measuring the ratio between the average price received by producers (at farm gate), including payments per tonne of current output, and the border price (measured at farm gate level).


Producer Single Commodity Transfers

The annual monetary value of gross transfers from consumers and taxpayers to agricultural producers, measured at the farm gate level, arising from policy measures directly linked to the production of a single commodity such that the producer must produce the designated commodity in order to receive the transfer.


Producer Percentage Single Commodity Transfers

The commodity SCT as a share of gross farm receipts for the specific commodity.


Price, producer

A producer price is the average price or unit value received by farmers in the domestic market for a specific agricultural commodity produced within a specified 12-month period. This price is measured at the farm gate — that is, at the point where the commodity leaves the farm — and therefore does not incorporate the costs of transport and processing.


Price, adjusted reference

Benchmark price measured at the point of competition or farm gate level after adjustment for respective access costs. It is derived using the data as defined in the adjusted domain. It reflects the maximum price that could be obtained if trade and market policies, excessive access costs within the domestic commodity value chain, international market distortions were removed; the country would follow a non-distortive exchange rate policy and overall market performance in the country enhanced. It is derived using adjusted data and can be calculated at the point of competition and at the farm gate.