The Centre has a large database containing specific and wide-ranging agricultural data focusing on major cereals, coarse grains, pulses, roots and tuber crops in the region of Asia and the Pacific.

• General indicators are macro indicators, which are closely related with aspects of secondary crop development and policies. They cover land utilization, population and other economic indicators such as: price indices, exchange rates, investment in agriculture, GNP, GDP, income per capita, consumption, various indexes, agricultural inputs, foreign trade, rainfall etc.
• Production is total yield measured in predetermined units and is collated from the total monthly reports.

• Data under the price category covers: farm gate price, wholesale price and retail price
• Data concerning trade on exports and imports of secondary crops is in quantity and monetary value. There is also some data on F.O.B (Free on Board) and C.I.F (Cost, Insurance and Freight) for certain countries.

• Data on cost structure is on the basis of production and cost of production per hectare, which are closely related with aspects of secondary crops. It covers production, total cost, seeds, pesticides, fertilizers (chemicals, manure, etc), costs (hire of tools/hire of animals, irrigation fees, maintenance, transportation, etc), wages/salaries (grubbing, ploughing, sowing/planting workers, fertilizing insecticide, weeding, harvest workers, etc), other costs (taxes, etc.)

• Food balance sheets present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item the sources of supply and its utilization (i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption).
  It is important to note that the quantities of food available for human consumption, as estimated in the food balance sheets, relate simply to the quantities of food reaching the consumer. Farm waste during distribution and processing is taken into consideration as an element in the food balance sheets.
  The accuracy of food balance sheets, which are in essence derived statistics, is of course dependent on the reliability of the underlying basic statistics of the population, supply and utilization of foods and of their nutritive value. These vary a great deal between countries, both in terms of coverage as well as accuracy.