Worked Examples · Example 12
Q.A farmer sells wheat worth ₹40 to a miller, who converts it into flour and sells it to a baker for ₹70. The baker bakes bread from the flour and sells it to a final consumer for ₹100. Using the Value Added Method, calculate the contribution of this chain of production to GDP, and verify your answer using the Expenditure Method.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Method 1 — Value Added (Product) Method:
Gross Value Added at each stage :
- Farmer: sells wheat for ₹40, with no intermediate consumption (assume no purchased inputs) →
- Miller: buys wheat for ₹40 (intermediate consumption), sells flour for ₹70 →
- Baker: buys flour for ₹70 (intermediate consumption), sells bread for ₹100 →
Method 2 — independent cross-check via the Expenditure Method:
The only sale to a final consumer in this chain is the bread, bought for ₹100; the wheat and flour transactions are between producers (intermediate goods) and are not counted separately in final expenditure. So final expenditure on this chain of production is simply: …
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