Manufacturers have already ceased to supply sugar to Russian stores for more than a week, suspending sales by trading networks and refusing to confirm their future supplies. About this on Thursday, April 1, writing “Izvestia” with reference to sources on the market.
According to the interlocutors of the publication, supply problems began after announcement by the government to allocate the branches from April 1 subsidies for selling products at a fixed price of 36 rubles per kilogram. In this case, the factories may receive compensation of costs in the amount of five rubles for each Sugar kilogram sold by retailers. Against this background, manufacturers have rolled out their activity, because until April 1 to implement its products unprofitable.
According to another source of publication in the trade industry, that large companies cannot really buy sugar, and manufacturers refuse to confirm their future supplies. He noted that stocks of products on distribution centers of trading companies are reduced daily.
In the Association of Retail Sales Companies (Akort), the newspaper was not confirmed, but also did not refute the existence of problems with the procurement of sugar after March 22. In the Ministry of Agriculture, the situation in the Sahara market was named stable and stated that they did not expect his deficit. The ministry stressed that now the participants in agreements on the stabilization of prices for sugar prices (about 100 percent of the market) fulfill their obligations and shipping products, providing the needs of the domestic market.
Earlier, the Russian government extended agreements to contain food prices. In particular, they are extended for sugar until June 1. Against the background of rising prices for products at the end of last year, the Cabinet has concluded a number of agreements on the stabilization of prices for sugar and sunflower oil of Russian production. Now the maximum prices for sugar should be 36 rubles per kilogram in wholesale and 46 rubles in retail. Initially it was assumed that the agreement would be valid until April.
In early March, it became known that the authorities are preparing to hold back prices and other products: poultry and egg meat. In mid-February, the newspaper Izvestia, with reference to the source on the market, reported that the poultry farms offered trade networks to increase the prices of poultry meat and eggs by 10 percent.