The growth of prices for buckwheat was due to the fact that a number of farmers were not ready to increase crops in the past year, informs RBC referring to the Ministry of agriculture.
the Agency notes that in the past year, prices for this product, on the contrary, has decreased due to the unprecedented harvest in the year 2017, when gathered more than 1, 5 million tons of buckwheat.
However, the Ministry said, in 2019, the small manufacturers could not increase the number of crops, and this eventually resulted in the growth of producer prices, with the consequent increase in consumer prices.
in addition, increased difference between price and cost of goods. Thus, according to the Ministry of agriculture on December 6, wholesale purchasing prices for cereals amounted to 35, 7 rubles per kilogram, and consumer, for its part, - 61, 73 rubles per kilogram.
According to the forecast of the Ministry, the yield of buckwheat for the current year was 780 thousand tons, which corresponds to the average level of multi-year performance.
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