While the ruble triumphs over the victory, its strengthening continues, - import products are growing faster in price. And stronger than others today has risen in price overseas butter.

The price for this product soared, according to the results of the first quarter of this year in comparison with the same period of the past almost twice, according to "Izvestiya". The prices for milk, meat, poultry, fish, coffee and chocolate products also went up. At the same time, the volume of imports of products, as the results of the first three months of this year showed, increased by 16.3%.

Average contract prices for imported butter grew by 1.7 times, milk went up by 18.6%, coffee - by 25.3%, meat - by 17% (poultry - by 29%), fish - by 7.3% %, And containing cocoa products - by 7.9%. Such data are contained in the certificate of the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to Rosstat, in the first quarter of this year, 1 kg of butter on average cost 500.4 rubles. , And in the same period last year - 402.2 rubles. Prices for milk rose from 47.9 to 52 rubles. Per liter, coffee - from 936 to 1010 rubles. For 1 kg, chocolate - from 763 to 831 rubles. Fish did not go up.

This growth occurred at a time when the domestic currency was growing stronger. If in the first quarter of 2016 g. The average exchange rate was 74.6 rubles. For $ 1, then in the first three months of 2017, the dollar was given "only" 58.8 rubles.

Along with the increase in prices, the supply of most of the more expensive products. Butter was imported more by 14.5%, dried milk by 27.5%, fresh or frozen fish by 22.1%, poultry by 21.1%, cocoa beans by 31.7%.

For comparison: last year the share of Russian milk and dairy products, according to the final indicators of the food security doctrine, was 81.5% with the planned 90%.

The real self-sufficiency of Russia in these products is much lower, so prices and exports are growing, explained Executive Director of the Russian Union of Dairy Enterprises Lyudmila Manitskaya.

Butter also grows in price because of sanctions, State Duma deputy Arkady Ponomarev, who oversees the dairy industry. He pointed out that the prices are affected by the complexity of the channels of supply of imported products from the countries of the sanctions list.

Ministry of Agriculture commented on the situation.

The Federal Customs Service said that for the first quarter of this year, Russia imported 21.5 thousand. T of butter, and a year earlier this figure was 20.7 thousand. Tons. And the amount of these supplies is significantly different: in the first three months of 2016. Russia bought butter for $ 63.1 million, and for the same period of 2017 - $ 117.3 million.

The largest supplier of butter to the Russian market is Belarus, second place in the list of importers is New Zealand.