• 09/02/2025 19:43

Minagropolitics told whether to expect a growth in food prices in the coming months

ByJohn Newman

Feb 9, 2025

at the beginning of the current month, the bank-regulator (NBU) worsened the forecast regarding the growth of consumer prices in Ukraine over 2025 to 8.4 percent (inflation index).

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According to NBN with & nbsp; links to & nbsp; Ukrinform material, from & nbsp; first deputy head of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and & Nbsp; Taras Vysotsky’s food, the statement & nbsp;-in December-January in & nbsp; Ukraine was stabilized, and & nbsp; the cost of products was worn, and & nbsp; This trend will remain in & nbsp; long-term perspective.

Based on the & nbsp; Vysotsky’s words, in the fall of 2024, the products went up due to the influence of a number of factors:

  • droughts and & nbsp; reduced volumes of the resulting harvest, negatively affected by & nbsp; prices;
  • of international prices for & nbsp; dairy products that have affected and & nbsp; domestic market of Ukraine.

The official added, the official, that now, in & nbsp; in accordance with the & nbsp; analysis of the current situation, any prerequisites providing for a significant increase in the cost of products to & nbsp; harvest-2025 collection, not & nbsp; and & nbsp; today's level is possible, thanks to:

  • import of foreign goods to cover short-term deficiency;
  • predictable-high volumes of the new crop, which make the goods continue to fall in & nbsp; price.

Previously, we & nbsp; we wrote about & nbsp; the fact that in & nbsp; NBU answered, in & nbsp; which months of 2025 are expected to slow down the inflation rate.

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