Leakage of food. Prices for fruits and vegetables in Ukraine beat records

In Ukraine, the record went up fruits and vegetables. Normal cabbage for the year jumped in price to three times the price of a traditional Borsheva set break new records: beets, potatoes and carrots for the year rose by 72%, and kale - has tripled. However, exports of agricultural products continues to increase appeal of Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov to take up shovels and feed the family with their own gardens are now more than ever relevant. In April of vegetables and fruits in Ukraine went up by 22% during the first week of May - on 3,5%, calculated in news agency "APK-Inform. "Vegetables and fruits has never cost so much - from Kiev says Polina Stepanova. - Now, my family spends on food 3,500 hryvnia per month, although in September last year on care products 2000. As the focus of the experts interviewed, the current price hikes especially swift: they are the reason and objective factors, and the desire of traders to make money. Crop for export Andrew Yarmak, project manager "APK-Inform: Vegetables & Fruits", believes that the reason for price rise Borsheva set - crop failure a major cause of price rise project manager "APK-Inform: Vegetables & Fruits" Andrew Yarmak calls a bad harvest in which blame Heavenly Office. "The weather was the worst in the history of meteorological observations - he assures - until the end of June almost daily in the major regions was rain, and then came the heat, and the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees. In addition, experts say, the spring half of the crop rotted due to lack of civilized vegetable stores, on which construction of farmers have no money. But despite this, Ukraine continues to actively export products. Only for the I quarter of this year, according to Goskomstat, the potatoes were taken out of the country for about $ 3 million, carrots and red beets - almost $ 2.5 million, apples - $ 8 million, and buckwheat - by $ 796 thousand And the previous year export figures were considerably more modest. Over the same period in 2010 from the Ukraine have been removed potato for $ 21 thousand, carrot and red beet - almost $ 74 thousand, apples - $ 32 million, and buckwheat - by $ 159 thousand main buyer of Ukrainian fruit and vegetables became Russia - there has got the lion's share of Ukrainian crop. This is not surprising, because in the neighboring country, retail prices are higher than in Ukraine: buckwheat kilogram is 36 UAH., Potatoes, beets and carrots are sold to 13 UAH. With the world on Fruit Expenditure on food Kyiv woman Polina Stepanova increased from 2 thousand grn. per month to 3.5 tys.Chto regards the internal market, it fills the needs of imports. Traditional for the country's fruits and vegetables supply the Ukrainians Iran, Egypt, India and Poland. "Ukrainian cabbage ended last year - says Andrey Bogdanov, deputy director of Dnepropetrovsk vegetable distributor of Alfa-terra". - As a result of the fall we bought cabbage for 1.8 hryvnia per kilogram, and now take on imported 10.5 hryvnia. Y Bogdanova his opinion on the recent sharp rise in prices for fruits and vegetables: "Major distributors, who are equipped warehouses, seeing that the prices started rising, they decided to hold large quantities of the same cabbage, then to sell it at a time when the cost of more widened. " One of the main reasons for price increase was a jump in gasoline prices, said Deputy General Director of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Alexander Yaroslavsky. And most of all new fuel price tags affected the production of private farms, as in the cost of their products share the cost of gasoline up to 15%. It was the "gasoline" factor does not allow the cost of fruits and vegetables back to their previous level. "Prices will never be such as in the past - predicts Mr. Yaroslavsky - to grow agricultural products became more expensive. The more so because in addition to fuel costs jumped fertilizers and crop protection. " However, for agrootrasli high food prices means higher earnings. For example, the profitability of potato production last year reached 67%, came close to the income derived from the production of oilseeds. However, it is a fact that Ukrainian farmers will feed their countrymen. It is possible that their product reaches the shelves of neighboring countries and within countries continue to be sold to an Indian, Egyptian or Chinese food. Catherine Shapoval, Focus