The reason for the rise in food prices in Crimea - extortions of Kiev and local monopolists

Today, on 9 June, the Minister of economic development and trade of the Crimea Svetlana Verba at hardware meeting at the Council of Ministers listed the main reasons for the rise in price of products, which emphasize the residents of the Crimea.
According to the Minister, this is due to many factors, Both economic and political order. For example, with the growth of wholesale prices on products from Ukraine - their Volume until now is about 80% of the food market. This extortion at checkpoints on the Ukrainian side, in individual cases reach up to 10% of the value of the goods.
at the same time, said Verba, Russian manufacturers appoint a significantly higher wholesale prices for own goods than Ukrainian: prices in the Krasnodar region by 50-60% higher on the social goods and on 50-100% - for other commodity groups.
The amount of money in the Crimea has increased due to the increase of pensions by 75% and the salaries and allowances of public sector employees by 50%, And banking services have risen in price in 2 times.
Instability of supply is also important In the formation of the order price. For its part, unstable supply due to increased transportation and delays at checkpoints because of complication screening procedure is currently screening machines with a single employee of the Rosselkhoznadzor takes half an hour, whereas in previous years through checkpoints were up to 2000 vehicles per day.
As stressed Verba, the cost of transportation of the items at the ferry terminal is about 40 thousand Rubles. a 20-ton vehicle." But if it was fixed cost. The thing is that Today We can't regulate prices on the ferry, And prices change from day to day. Damage to the goods due to idle in the port of Novorossiysk from 4 to 10 days ", - the Minister said. At this point of time recorded on the crossing on June 16.
in connection with the fact that were introduced limits on the carriage in Crimea certain types of food, for example, pork, this market Crimean producers of natural monopolies." Enterprise " Skvortsova " for the month increased selling prices for pork by 46%. Against this background, reached for them " Friendship of peoples " and several other plants, " said willow. And after the ban of the Rosselkhoznadzor for import of Ukrainian dairy products prices on all Crimean dairy enterprises per day increased by 15%.

besides, on the area of Crimea there is no uniform structure for controlling the pricing process." We tried to make it on their own, determined the working groups in the regions, but the Prosecutor us sub-rules, citing the fact that We have no right for it, " said Svetlana Verba.- because of this, I have a proposal to make a joint working group on price control provisions, especially as We have the right to regulate trade margins, which must be no higher than 10% for 23 types of food, which is the most popular ".


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