BEIJING, Dec 10 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — A series of indices, designed to objectively and accurately reflect the price trend of tropical agricultural products and prospects of related industries, were officially released at a seminar on building the price index publishing center for international tropical agricultural products held recently in Haikou, capital city of south China’s Hainan Province.
The indices, jointly compiled by China Economic Information Service (CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency, People’s Government of Chengmai County of Hainan Province and Haiken Group (HSF), consists of China banana industry development index, China natural rubber market confidence index, areca nut industry climate index, and global banana industry technological competitiveness index.