In Russia, the prices for food products. For the first five months of the year, the minimum set of food prices went up to 4 thousand rubles.
A sharp jump in prices occurred from April to May. If the rise in prices before that was 5%, then for one month it was the same and after the end of May it reached 10%. These are the latest Rosstat data, which are quoted by Izvestia,.
Per month for the average in Russia, the cost of a minimum set of food at the end of May was 4036 rubles. And compared with the previous month increased by 4.2%, and since the beginning of the year - by 9.4%. The food minimum in the capital cost 4945 rubles. , Having increased since the beginning of the year by 11.1%, in St. Petersburg - 4888 rubles. (+ 9.8%).
Rosstat takes into account in the mini-food set several types of meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, bread, vegetables and fruits, cereals, vermicelli, several types of oils, tea, biscuits, caramel, sugar and salt - a total of 33 names. In the calculations, the average prices for products in the region and the volumes of consumption of goods.
The increase in value was due to a significant rise in price of vegetables - in some positions it was 80%. But this will not last for long: in June, the first harvest will appear on the shelves from the south of the country, and by September, the prices for vegetables, as the producers predict, may fall below the cost price.
Marina Eliseeva, a researcher at the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted that the growth in the cost of a minimum set of products in January-May is primarily due to the increase in prices for fruit and vegetable products during this period.
For the first four months of the year, vegetable prices rose by 50%. In May white cabbage considerably increased in price - 1.4 times, potatoes, onions, carrots and beets in 1,2 - 1,3 times, apples - by 7,5%. And cucumbers and tomatoes, on the contrary, fell by 26.4% and 11.5% respectively. The prices for all types of cereals also decreased: from 0.3% in rice to 3.8% in buckwheat groats. Russian cheeses fell 2.5%.
From January to May, according to the United interdepartmental information and statistical system, the most significant was the increase in prices for white cabbage - by 83%, to almost 34 rubles. Per kilogram. Potatoes went up by 79% - to 37 rubles per 1 kg, the cost of onions rose by 74% - to 39 rubles per 1 kg, and carrots - by 42% to 38 rubles per kilogram. Cucumbers fell in price by 37%, to almost 106 rubles. For 1 kg, the price of a dozen eggs fell by 17% - to almost 53 rubles. Prices for peas and beans, chilled chicken, flour, millet, pork and herring have changed significantly.
In the last spring month, the Russian market registered a shortage of imported potatoes from Egypt, Russian suppliers of foreign root crops significantly increased procurement prices, a source from Izvestia in one of the retail chains. Procurement prices for milk and dairy products rose, he added..
Earlier it became known about the plans of the Ministry of Agriculture to stabilize the value of vegetable products in the coming years in 48 regions of the country to build a network of wholesale distribution centers. They will be close to the cities with over a million population and large transport and logistics centers.