Vegetables are expensive, because half the crop is lost, - the expert

High retail prices for fruits and vegetables in Ukraine was due, at least five reasons. To remedy this situation, it is necessary to establish a system of processing products according to analysts project "APK-Inform: Vegetables and Fruits", the Ukrainian fruit and vegetables for the year rose 72%, although the official Goskomstat reports a 10% inflation. Experts claim: there is no mistake. "This wide range in numbers due to the fact that the official inflation rate is calculated based on the consumer basket, which is hopelessly outdated, - explained the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine, Director of Pro Agro Nikolai Vernitsky. - Firstly, the prices are taken only at the most basic commodities - apples, cabbage, carrots, and certainly domestic production. Secondly, their prices are much lower than the market average. In addition, more than once expressed a claim to the very method of collecting data for official statistics. The price of vegetables in Ukraine considers the huge losses of production, high costs of production and storage, higher prices for electricity, gas and water, increase in wages, rising world prices. "According to official statistics, to the end user does not get nearly half produced vegetables, and all these 50% of the losses inherent in the price of the commodity that is sold - explains Vernitsky. - In addition, the very high costs of production of greenhouse vegetables, or to store them in special storage in the winter: they exceed 60% of product value. As for prices, they certainly influence, but not too much. " Way out expert sees no increase in production and in changing the system itself. "Under present conditions, the more we produce, such as potato, the more it will rot - sure Vernitsky. - Therefore it is necessary not to increase production and move to industrial production, to build a potato, to establish industrial processing of potatoes. Restaurants, cafes and bars prefer to buy peeled and sliced ??refrigerated potatoes, which in Ukraine is negligible. "