RAPID REPORTS Agriculture, forestry and fisheries. 1991 1

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RAPID REPORTS eurostat Agriculture, forestry and fisheries 1991 D 1 TRENDS IN THE EC AGRICULTURAL PRICE INDICES (OUTPUT AND INPUT) IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990 Producer prices of agricultural products (output) Strong fall in real terms (Nominal change: +0.1%, real: -6.8%) The average monthly index of producer prices of agricultural products (including fruit and vegetables) for the Community as a whole (EUR 10) was virtually unchanged in nominal terms in the third quarter of 1990 relative to the corresponding quarter of the previous year (cf. Table 1). This result reinforces the slowdown in the rate of nominal price increases which began in the first quarter of 1990. In real terms, prices were lower than in the same quarter of 1989 for the third consecutive quarter, this time by 6.8%. In the third quarter of 1990 the real producer prices of crop products almost held their level relative to the corresponding period in the previous year (-0.1 %). Real prices for wine and wine must continued their strong upward trend for the seventh consecutive quarter. Real fruit prices were 9.9% higher than in the third quarter of 1989, with improvements of 13.5% in Italy and Belgium, 15.8% in the Netherlands and 26.9% in France. Real vegetable prices were significantly higher in a number of Member States, especially the Federal Republic of Germany (+21.3%), the Netherlands (+21.9), Belgium (+27.8%) and Greece (+29.0%).

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