Why has the price of carrots gone up? Why the prices of the most affordable vegetables are rising

Prices for the "borscht set" are growing much faster than for other vegetables, according to Rosstat data. For example, in May, cucumbers and tomatoes even fell in price by more than ten percent. However, prices for carrots rose by 7.3 percent, onions - by five percent, beets - by 12 percent, and fresh white cabbage - by almost 20 percent, according to Rosstat.

Experts attribute the increase in prices to a seasonal factor. "Last year's stocks of Russian vegetables in storage facilities have come to an end, only imported products remain on the market, which are more expensive," says Kirill Lashin, head of the analytical department of the National Union of Fruit and Vegetable Producers.

However, let's look at the geography of imports. We mainly import onions from Egypt, and carrots - from Israel. That is, we buy these vegetables for foreign currency, because the prices for them in Russia can really be higher due to the depreciation of the ruble. But potatoes are also imported from Egypt. At the same time, the product has risen in price by only 0.7 percent over the week. But the leader in terms of price growth - cabbage - comes to us mainly from neighboring Belarus.

This year, in addition to the spring deficit, rising vegetable prices have spurred an increase in the cost of gasoline

Potato production volumes in Russia fluctuate greatly, there is a problem of a shortage of high-quality potato storage facilities, says Aleksey Krasilnikov, executive director of the Potato Union. But still, in recent years, modern potato storage facilities for 500,000 tons of products have been put into operation in the country. This allows you to smooth out the seasonal shortage of the product and restrain price fluctuations.

But with cabbage the situation is worse, we cannot keep our goods until spring. Knowing these problems, producers in neighboring Belarus have created a vegetable production and storage system focused on the Russian market. Cabbage is brought to us during the period when the supply is most limited - from April to July, Kirill Lashin explains.

Cabbage, like other vegetables of the "borscht set", costs several tens of rubles per kilogram, so consumers will not feel an increase in the price of a couple of rubles, and demand will not decrease. As a result, the growth rate of prices for cabbage in the spring of this year was twice as high as last year.

The construction of modern vegetable stores in Russia will help eliminate price fluctuations. Such work is already underway, notes Kirill Lashin. And the seasonal increase in the cost of vegetables should stop in July, when domestic vegetables begin to enter the market, experts promise.

Rosstat records the rapid rise in prices for the most popular vegetables, including onions, carrots, cabbage and beets. The growth in the cost of the components of the "borscht set" in May was faster compared to the "salad" products. Thus, prices for white cabbage, beets, carrots and onions increased by an average of 20%, 12%, 7.3% and 5%, respectively, while tomatoes with cucumbers fell in price by more than 10%.

In June, the trend continued: during the first summer week, cabbage rose in price by 12%, carrots - by 4%, onions - by 3%.

The National Union of Producers of Vegetables and Fruits explains the rise in prices by seasonality.

- Last year's stocks of vegetables grown in the Russian Federation came to an end, the storage facilities were empty. As a result, only more expensive imported products remained on the market,” representatives of the organization explained.

Independent experts, for their part, pay attention to the geography of imports. According to them, cabbage from “fraternal” Belarus is the most expensive for Russians. Egyptian carrots and Israeli onions are much cheaper, and this despite the fact that the purchase of these vegetables is made for foreign currency. On the other hand, potatoes are also imported "from the banks of the Nile", but their price increase is not so noticeable (+0.7% in the first week of June).

Aleksey Krasilnikov, a representative of the Potato Union of the Russian Federation, complains about the lack of high-quality storage facilities and the gap in yields in different years.

“However, in recent years, modern potato storage facilities for 500,000 tons have been put into operation. This makes it possible to partially smooth out the seasonal shortage of potatoes and restrain price fluctuations,” the expert added.

With cabbage, according to Kirill Lashin of the National Union of Vegetable Producers, things are worse.

We can't keep our goods until spring. Knowing about our problem, Belarusian manufacturers have created a system of production and storage oriented to the Russian market. As a result, cabbage is brought to us during the period of the greatest shortage of supply - from mid-spring to mid-summer, the expert explained.

This year, the rise in prices, along with the seasonal factor, has spurred an increase in the cost of transporting goods and an increase in the cost of fuel. These factors must be factored into the final price.

Cabbage, like other vegetables of the "borscht set", costs customers several tens of rubles per kilo, therefore a temporary increase in the price of a couple of rubles will not affect the dynamics of demand and will not hit the wallet of the average Russian, experts cited earlier agree.

According to Lashin, it is possible to "reduce" seasonal price fluctuations by building modern vegetable stores in the Russian Federation.

“Work is already underway,” he says.

The cessation of the seasonal rise in prices for vegetables should be expected in July, with the appearance of a new crop of domestic vegetables on the shelves.

Prudent citizens of Kazan began to buy rice. The most popular cereal in Russia (yes, it is rice that, according to official data, occupies the largest share in our consumption of cereals) threatens to repeat the record of its closest rival - buckwheat. The other day, the purchase price of a ton of rice jumped immediately by 3.5 thousand rubles and reached almost 40 thousand. This means that in the near future rice will rise in price on store shelves. However, we are not accustomed to rising prices.

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So far, rice in Kazan stores has not begun to rise in price, and in some places it even fell in price thanks to promotions. But people are already stocking up on cereals for future use: today in one of the stores, VK correspondents found that the shelf on which rice of the middle price category stood at a discount of almost a quarter was empty. We managed to find the cheapest cereal in a simple cellophane package for 36 rubles, the most expensive round-grain rice costs about 400 rubles per pack weighing half a kilo. On average, as calculated in Tatarstanstat, now you have to pay 57 rubles per kilogram of rice.

Russian experts explain the increase in purchase prices for rice by a crop failure of paddy rice in Thailand due to drought.

And how to explain the fact that, despite the season, fruits and vegetables not only do not get cheaper, but even rise in price? As it turned out, carrots are more expensive in summer than in winter! According to the same Tatarstanstat, in January this root crop cost about 27 rubles per kilogram, and now it is 54 rubles on average.

Buying onions in winter was also more profitable than now: 25 - 26 rubles per kilogram at the beginning of the year against the current 34. But cabbage, as it should be for a seasonal product, fell in price: if in January you had to pay 27 rubles for a kilogram head, now - 23. Cucumbers and tomatoes also fell in price. But if you can buy tomatoes on the market for 40 rubles, then in stores their prices start at 60.

Before September, when an overabundance of fruits and vegetables appears on the shelves, they will not become much cheaper, Mars Ismagilov, Chairman of the Council of the Union of Consumers of the Republic of Tatarstan, believes. - Especially since now local suppliers do not want to sell their products cheaply. They can be understood: production costs are growing, life in general is becoming more expensive, of course, they want to receive adequate pay for their work.

Farmers are trying to focus on market prices, - confirmed the chairman of the Association of Farmers and Farmsteads of the Republic of Tatarstan Kamiyar Baitemirov. - They are forced to incur losses, selling, for example, grain at a price of about 7 thousand rubles per ton, that is, 7 rubles per kilogram. At the same time, ready-made bread in the store, of course, is much more expensive. Here are the direct producers and they are trying to "recapture" the losses at the expense of other agricultural products.

By the way, since the beginning of the year, according to Tatarstanstat, bread has also risen in price: if in January a loaf of rye cost 35 rubles, now it is 36. True, white has fallen in price a little - from 40 rubles to 39.30. And pasta has risen in price from 46 to 51 rubles per kilogram.

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The price tags are upsetting now and those who love the soup in a nutty way. If in January it was necessary to pay about 270 rubles for a kilogram of beef, now it will cost 33 rubles more. Lamb increased in price from 351 to 382 rubles. But pork can still be bought for 253 rubles per kilo. It will also be possible to save on chicken: it has fallen in price from 128 to 124 rubles per kilogram. But the “value” of sausages and wieners, on the contrary, has increased: at the beginning of the year, a kilo could be bought for 230 rubles, and now - for 250.

In the hot season of harvesting, the price of sugar rose slightly: over the past week, Tatarstanstat noted a price increase of 1.04% - now a kilogram of sand costs about 49 rubles. However, in winter it cost 52 rubles.

The list of products that please the buyer with the price also includes chicken eggs, which in winter have risen in price to 60 rubles for a dozen, and by the end of July they have fallen in price to 45 rubles. Although it did not decrease, the average price for pasteurized milk remained the same - about 37 rubles per liter package.

The problem is that even a local producer often works with foreign equipment, buys imported feed, fertilizers, and so on. And since imports become more expensive, both the costs of the manufacturer and the final price of the goods increase. But now there is a process of import substitution. Of course, this is a long process, but the results will be more and more noticeable. Local goods should gradually become cheaper, Mars Ismagilov is sure. - You can't say the same about imports, of course.

The state needs to more effectively support local producers and more strictly control intermediaries, then prices will more or less settle down, - Kamiyar Baitemirov believes in turn. - In addition, now there are markets where farmers sell their products themselves, and, as a rule, they have it cheaper than in stores. Buying directly from manufacturers is a good way to save money.

Over the past month, the most common vegetables have rapidly risen in price in Russia - cabbage, onions, carrots, and beets.
Prices for the "borscht set" are growing much faster than for other vegetables, according to Rosstat data. For example, in May, cucumbers and tomatoes even fell in price by more than ten percent. However, carrots rose in price by 7.3 percent, onions - by five percent, beets - by 12 percent, and fresh white cabbage - by almost 20 percent, according to Rosstat.

In June, prices for popular vegetables continued to grow at an accelerated pace. During the first week of the month, onions added another three percent in price, carrots - four, and cabbage - 12 percent.
Experts attribute the increase in prices to a seasonal factor.
“Last year’s stocks of Russian vegetables in storage facilities have come to an end, only imported products remain on the market, which are more expensive,” says Kirill Lashin, head of the analytical department of the National Union of Fruit and Vegetable Producers.

However, let's look at the geography of imports. We mainly import onions from Egypt, and carrots from Israel. That is, we buy these vegetables for foreign currency, because the prices for them in Russia can really be higher due to the depreciation of the ruble. But potatoes are also imported from Egypt. At the same time, the product has risen in price by only 0.7 percent over the week. But the leader in terms of price growth - cabbage - comes to us mainly from neighboring Belarus.

This year, in addition to the spring deficit, rising vegetable prices have spurred an increase in the cost of gasoline
Potato production volumes in Russia fluctuate greatly, there is a problem of a shortage of high-quality potato storage facilities, says Aleksey Krasilnikov, executive director of the Potato Union. But still, in recent years, modern potato storage facilities for 500,000 tons of products have been put into operation in the country. This allows you to smooth out the seasonal shortage of the product and restrain price fluctuations.
But with cabbage the situation is worse, we cannot keep our goods until spring. Knowing these problems, producers in neighboring Belarus have created a vegetable production and storage system focused on the Russian market. Cabbage is brought to us during the period when the supply is most limited - from April to July, Kirill Lashin explains.

But this year, in addition to the spring deficit, the rise in prices was spurred by an increase in the cost of gasoline and an increase in the cost of transporting goods. Additional costs have to be factored into prices. Often retail chains increase the cost of premium goods, and they can also increase prices for the most inexpensive goods where the consumer does not notice this, Andrey Karpov, chairman of the board of the Association of Retail Market Experts, explains.
Cabbage, like other vegetables of the "borscht set", costs several tens of rubles per kilogram, so consumers will not feel an increase in the price of a couple of rubles, and demand will not decrease. As a result, the growth rate of prices for cabbage in the spring of this year was twice as high as last year.

Ukrainian carrots are rapidly becoming more expensive - in some markets, they ask for 40 hryvnias per kilogram of root crops. This is almost double what it was in 2017. The journalists of “Today” found out what this cost is connected with and what to expect in the future.

In Sumy, carrots, which cost 35-40 UAH/kg, are brought mainly from the Kherson region. As the sellers explain, this year the root crop did not disfigure.

“Last year carrots were much cheaper and onions were more expensive. Because there was no harvest,” says saleswoman Victoria.

Carrots are brought to Odessa from remote areas of the region. Saleswomen do not even put price tags - they say that they do not want to scare off buyers. And in Ivano-Frankivsk, carrots are sold for 45 hryvnia per kilo.

“Seeds are expensive, watering is expensive, people don’t want to grow it because it’s not profitable, it’s very expensive for people. Therefore, they are outraged that it is very expensive, but they take 1-2 things, of course, ”explains businesswoman Snezhanna Dyachenko.

Farmers sell carrots for sale no cheaper than 32 UAH/kg, which is why the price for the end buyer has increased to 40 UAH/kg.

As Aleksey Doroshenko, head of the Association of Suppliers of Retail Chains, said, prices rose due to the fact that in other countries the root crop also disfigured. But, according to experts, the situation will change.

“Now carrots are worth their weight in gold. … But in July we will see a price reduction,” Doroshenko said.

The expert explains: Polish carrots will soon be brought to Ukraine, so prices will fall.

Recall that not only carrots have risen in price in Ukraine. Per year prices for products of the so-called “borscht set” increased by almost a third. In general, a four-liter pot of borscht now costs at least 100 hryvnias.

However, according to the State Statistics Service, in May