MINPROMTORG RUSSIA ordered trading networks and manufacturers to explain the reasons for rising meat prices recently. About this with reference to three participants of the meeting in the government and market participants are written “Vedomosti”.
In particular, the trading network “Tape” received an appropriate request not only from the Ministry of Industry, but also from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), also included in the struggle. The appeals came to the National Meat Association (Cherkizovo, Miratorg and others).
During the last meetings, the retailers called on not to take price increases from manufacturers. Such a situation was observed before the May holidays.
CEO of the National Soviet Union Yuri Kovalev explained the growth of wholesale prices by the end of the Great Post and Long Vacations, during which people went to kebabs. He stressed that the growth of wholesale prices for retail affects not much, prices in stores increase only in a period of sustainable, and not short-term rise in price in the whole.
In turn, the head of the National Meat Association Sergey Yushin indicated that they became more expensive than grain, packaging, vitamins, mineral supplements, amino acids, and the production of poultry meat lags behind last year.
According to Kovalev, in the fall, when the shebal season is over, the prices for pork will fall again, and the total inflation of products will be comparable with the total food inflation.
May 13 During the Government meeting, the prices of which require special attention and control, eggs, buckwheat croup, wheat bread, sunflower oil and sugar were named. In the rise in price, as stated by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishoustin, the authorities are considered to be guilty of “greedy” entrepreneurs who are trying to earn on world prices.