Since February 2022, the average cost of onions in the wholesale segment on the Russian market has increased by 28.7% to 19.3 rubles. per kilogram. The main reason for the significant increase in the price of this product was the ban on exports from Central Asian countries. informs The newspaper Vedomosti refers to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture).
“From February 2022 to February 2023, the price of onions in the wholesale sector increased by 28.7% to 19.3 rubles. per 1 kg excluding VAT (value-added tax – “socialbites.ca”) <….> In order to avoid a famine in January-February, the authorities of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan banned the export of onions from their own lands to neighboring countries, including Russia.
At the same time, onions became the only product of the so-called “borscht set”, the price of which has increased significantly in the last 12 months. During this time (since February 2022), the cost of cabbage decreased by 58.6% to 12.7 rubles. Per 1 kg, potatoes – 37.3%, up to 17.2%, beets – 28.8%, up to 15.8 rubles, and carrots – 20.4% – 18.8 rubles, in grade.
February 5, Igor Nikolaev, Principal Researcher of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated In 2023, the increase in the prices of fruits and vegetables in Russia continued. In the first two weeks of January alone, prices for fresh cucumbers increased by more than 19%, tomatoes by 17% and carrots by 10% until the end of December. This trend is likely to continue in the foreseeable future.