More than ten largest Russian manufacturers sausages and sausages warned retailers about the rise in price of products by 7-20 percent from the end of October – the beginning of November. This is reported to “Izvestia” with reference to reports of representatives of retail chains.
reasons for price increases
Increasing the cost of meat products is associated with increasing production costs, in particular, with a rise in price of packaging, detergents, egg melange and meat itself. According to the Institute of Conjuncture of the Agrarian Market (ICAR), the highest values of all types of meat reached in August-September.
Most of the cost of fresh chicken – by 50 percent compared to the same period last year, the beef has rise in price by 11 percent, and pork is 29 percent, writes the publication.
Earlier, the head of the Executive Committee of the National Meat Association Sergey Yushin noted a serious crisis in the agricultural sector of the country caused by the personnel deficit due to the low level of wages and other factors. Livestock, for example, he said, suffered financial losses due to animal diseases, in particular, the African plague of pigs and bird flu. Manufacturers are trying to restrain the rise in prices even on such an unfavorable background, thanks to which the industry remains one of the most stable. The recent jump of Yushin’s prices connects with “stressful purchases” – meat processing plants are already starting to prepare for New Year sales and reserves raw materials for the production of delicacies.
Complex
in the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia reported that a set of measures is being made to stabilize the situation. In particular, the allocation of ten billion rubles to meat processors in compensation of part of the cost of purchasing feed. For the year extended the import of the foundation for feed – soy and soy chrost. Livestockovodes are available preferential loans for the purchase of grain, as well as the investment launches for the construction and modernization of objects, the ministry said.
In July, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the work on the control of prices for the products that the Party and the Government of Russia, it is necessary to increasingly include relevant ministries and departments, as well as representatives of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).
Five-year growth record
previously became known that the rise in prices for products in Russia broke a five-year record, updating the maximum since September 2016, when inflation was 6.4 percent.
Compared to the previous month, consumer prices in June as a whole rose by 0.69 percent, food prices went up by 0.64 percent over this period and by 7.9 percent per year, and non-food products – by 0.68 percent Mai and 7.04 percent at the annual level. The cost of services rose by 0.76 percent in a monthly expression, and in annual – by 3.95 percent.