The index grew 15.19% in the four-quarter period ending Sept. 21.
PPI in Q3 (Sept. 22-Dec. 20, 2020) increased by 72.27% compared with the corresponding quarter of last year.
The overall PPI for the sector in Q3, using 2011 as the base year, stood at 925.25, indicating a 36.06% growth compared with the preceding quarter, the Statistical Center of Iran reported.
The highest quarter-on-quarter increase of the index among Iranian provinces during the period under review was registered for Gilan with 84.7% and the lowest producer inflation was recorded in East Azarbaijan with 13.7%.
On a year-on-year basis, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province registered the highest increase with 164.6% and Sistan-Baluchestan posted the lowest inflation with 20.1%.
PPI is a price index that measures average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output.
Another report newly published by SCI shows egg-laying chicken farms in Iran produced 869,000 tons of eggs in the year ending March 19, 2020, indicating a 29% or 196,000-ton increase compared with the fiscal March 2017-18.
A total of 11,460 people worked at egg-laying chicken farms in the year ending March 19, 2020; men account for 95% of total workers of egg-laying chicken farms.
There are 1,625 egg-laying chicken farms across the country, of which 1,268 are active.