The Rural Price Survey (SHPed) is carried out by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) regularly every month, including monitoring developments in prices of agricultural commodities along with prices of production factors used by farmers from the production side and monitoring developments in prices of goods and services consumed by households in rural areas in terms of consumption. Monitoring developments in prices of goods and services from both sides is used to calculate NTP in the form of the Price Index Received by Farmers (It) and the Price Index Paid by Farmers (Ib). The farmers referred to here are people who run agricultural businesses, sharecroppers (rental/contract/profit sharing) by bearing the risk. People who work in other people's rice fields/farms in hopes of wages (farm laborers) are not considered farmers.
Surveys for the need to calculate the NTP (Farmer Exchange Rate) include the Rural Producer Price Survey and the Rural Consumer Price Survey. The Rural Producer Price Survey covers the subsectors of food crops, horticulture, smallholder plantation crops, animal husbandry, capture fisheries, aquaculture and forestry which was carried out in Boyolali Regency. Because there are not enough samples for calculating the NTP in Boyolali, the NTP value is still the figure for Central Java Province. The Producer Price Survey asks farmers regarding the price per unit of production they sell and to traders/agricultural service providers regarding the prices/tariffs for goods/services sold.
Apart from the Producer Price Survey, a Rural Consumer Price Survey was also carried out which included food groups, non-food building materials, services and transportation, non-food and various other household equipment.
Thank you to all respondents to the Rural Producer and Consumer Price Survey in Boyolali Regency who provided timely data, your participation is needed for the next development planning.
