Re: Principal payment vs. Extra payment? When you get any loan, most of your extra payments will be applied to the principal. Certainly read your loan docs to be sure. But making extra payments will certainly cut your interest expense and you'd pay it off much sooner too. Using your example, I'll assume that your monthly payment is approx.
Italy has a variety of natural resources such as coal, zinc, potash, marble, barite, pumice, asbestos, fluorspar, mercury, feldspar, pyrite, natural gas and crude oil reserves. The Italian government has complete control of its mineral industry.
One of Italy's most widely grown vegetables is used not as a direct food product but as a sweetening source: the sugar beet. Italy in 2007 grew 4.7 million metric tons making it the 15th largest producer of the root vegetable worldwide, according to the FAO.