Within the industry, only the foresters are optimistic.
“It is worrying that the view of the future economic situation in the green business world continues to be so weak, which reflects a high cost situation for important inputs and concerns about how the future price picture and demand will develop”, says Anna Karin Hatt, president and CEO of LRF, in a press release.
The index lands at 92.8 percent for the first quarter of the year, a decrease of 2 percentage points compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.
It is the seventh quarter in a row that the index shows that agricultural and forestry companies have a negative view of the economy in the coming months.