Manufacturers predict the increase in prices for pasta

Retail prices for pasta can grow by 20-25 percent. This was stated by the General Director of Extra M OJSC Andrei Dribny, Interfax reports . This will happen due to the rise in the cost of raw materials.

If in September the wholesale price of a mile of solid grades was about 11.5 rubles, now it is difficult to buy even 20 rubles per kilogram. According to Dribny, the main causes of prices are a lower harvest of solid grades compared to the previous year and a significant increase in export, provoked by a decrease in the ruble exchange rate.

At the current growth rate of the cost of raw materials, "manufacturers of pasta will simply be forced to raise prices in the near future," Dribny notes. He explained that there are about 80 percent of the pasta in the cost of production flour in the cost of pasta.

So far, Extra M, like other large manufacturers of pasta, has a certain supply of raw materials. "Having developed this stock, we will be forced to increase the vacation prices. We have not yet notified our partners of raising, but we plan to do this in the near future," Drny said.

According to Princeno LLC, the average wholesale prices for flour in the European part of Russia to November 7 to November 14 increased by 3.6 percent, to 13.44 thousand rubles per ton. In addition, in Russia, the increase in prices in Fig. During the week, Krupa rose in wholesale by 6.9 thousand rubles per ton - up to 33.155 thousand. For comparison, a week earlier, growth was only 22 rubles.

On Wednesday, Rosstat said that the retail prices for buckwheat in Russia increased by 16.1 percent per week , and from the beginning of the month - by 27.5 percent. To take off prices, the exciting demand for this cereal led. Experts associated him with a decrease in buckwheat in the Altai Territory. This region usually accounts for up to 40 percent of its collection. The authorities of a number of regions of Siberia turned to the FAS with a request to intervene in the situation in the buckwheat market.

At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture claimed that there is no buckwheat in the country. The crop crops are enough to fully provide the country's population, emphasized in the department, and taking into account the transitional reserves, there is also the possibility of export.

On Thursday, Aliya Samigullina, a spokesman for the agricultural economy of the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, said that Rosterv could release a large amount of buckwheat cereal on the market . Such a question is worked out both in the government apparatus and in specialized ministries and departments.

The authorities resort to such measures extremely rarely - only in cases where the increase in prices for any of the first necessities reaches critical values. The last time Rosrezerv entered the market in 2011 with about 300 thousand tons of sugar-sand. Then, due to abnormal weather in the beetroot regions, the average price of sugar in the country increased by 63 percent in six months.