Food price index Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) in March declined due to a sharp fall in sugar prices.
The index amounted to 173 in March, 8 points against 179, 4 points in February." A decrease in 2015 occurred at the expense of large export sales and growing inventories, for example, wheat and corn", says FAO, reports news Agency ". In early March the FAO reported that the jump in food price index in February 2014, strongest since mid-2012, which was largely due to the crisis in Ukraine. Food price index FAO is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of raw food items.
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