Further decline in agricultural prices in August.

Agriculture & fishery
Agricultural prices

The agricultural and horticultural price index is once again declining slightly in August, i.e. -2.8% compared to July. While potato prices provide once again a downward pressure on the index, there is also a drop in the index for animals and animal products and in particular for eggs (-8.7%), poultry (-3.7%) and to a lesser extent bovine animals (-0.3%). As far as horticultural products are concerned, prices of flowers and plants fall by almost a third and vegetables lose 6 index points.