Egg prices in Russia are growing on the eve of the Orthodox Easter, the director of the Department of Internal Trade of the Ministry of Industry District Nikita Kuznetsov said. His words lead RIA Novosti.
“is the traditional time of a surge price. But for this carefully follow,” he explained. According to Kuznetsov, production will increase in May, and demand will fall. From 6 to 12 April, the eggs on average in Russia rose by 2.3 percent. Despite the fact that manufacturers included in the union of poultry farms agreed to contain the increase in prices for eggs and poultry meat.
According to Kuznetsov, now trading networks sell eggs at prices below procurement, and one of the major retailers only lose 25 million rubles per day. What kind of retailer is in question, the representative of the Ministry of Industry will not clarify.
Orthodox Easter in 2021 is celebrated on Sunday, May 2. Painted eggs are one of the main character symbols.
Earlier in April, it became known that prices for candy and waffles could grow in Russia. Market participants warned that manufacturers will raise the cost due to the rise in price of raw materials. The main ingredients, of which consist of sweets are: flour, butter, eggs, jam jumped in price by 50 percent, sugar – by 120 percent. As a result, the cost of production due to the rise in price of raw materials increased by an average of 10 percent.
In the Ministry of Agriculture, the reasons for rising prices for sweets did not see. The ministry believe that that the manufacturers will play on the arm of the Government measures taken to reduce prices for masligal cultures. In particular, since the beginning of the year, export duties were elevated for sunflower and rapeseed. Now they are at the prohibitive level.