Agritrend chapters that relate to credit and price trends and food consumption have been updated. The bank loans (banche e cassa depositi e prestiti) to the agriculture forestry and fisheries have reached in December 2013, a consistency of 44.1 billion euro, with a ratio of loans to total agricultural economy of 4.9%. 

In terms of food prices (including alcoholic beverages) that economic momentum is mainly attributable to the increase (of which is due seasonal factors of course) the prices of unprocessed products that are increased by 1, 7% on a monthly basis with a rise of more than one percentage point compared to the change in November (+0.6%). 

With regard to consumption, the information collected for December 2013 also confirm a negative trend of the indicator of consumption in terms of both value and quantities demanded; food items, beverages and tobacco registered a downward trend of 0.1% in value and by 1, 7% in quantitative terms.

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