The Farmers Exchange Rate (NTP) of West Sulawesi in January 2013 was 104.69, down 0.18 percent compared to the December 2012 FTT of 104.87. In addition, FTT according to the subsector was recorded for the 88.00 Food Crop subsector (NTP-P); Horticulture Subsector (NTP-H) 86.83; People's Plantation Plant Subsector (NTP-R) 130.98; Animal Husbandry Subsector (NTP-T) 113.27; and Fisheries Subsector (NTN) 107.41.
The results of monitoring of rural consumer prices show that rural inflation in West Sulawesi in January 2013 was 0.52 percent, which was generally driven by an increase in the price index of six expenditure groups, namely the food expenditure group by 0.79 percent, the food expenditure group was 0, 53 percent, the clothing expenditure group 0.21 percent, the health expenditure group 0.02 percent, the education, recreation and sports expenditure group 0.36 percent, and the transportation and communication expenditure group 0.06 percent. While the housing expenditure group experienced deflation of 0.11 percent
Inflation in rural areas occurred in 31 provinces, the highest in East Java 1.82 percent and the lowest in Southeast Sulawesi 0.17 percent. While the rest, namely North Maluku, deflation occurred in rural areas by 0.11 percent.
On a national scale, the NTP in January 2013 was 105.67 and experienced rural inflation of 1.04 percent.