Heat threatens to increase prices

According to the Government, the drought will destroy one-fifth of the grain harvest: farmers have already missed crops on 9.6 million hectares out of 48. President of the National Union of Grain Skurikhin Paul says about the possible increase in grain prices in 1,2-2 times. Usually rise in price for bread and other products ... A number of Russian regions will gather in times less of the harvest: Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk Oblast - 4 times, the Penza region - a factor of 2, and Chelyabinsk region - 3 three-fold. In 17 subjects of the Russian Federation declared a state of emergency. Due to the high yields over the past year and a half the price of flour and corn has been nearly halved, but the bread in this regard became cheaper, and gradually become more expensive. Already known dynamics of the value of flour on the market: two weeks it has risen by 25% to 9 rubles. per kilo. This will lead to higher prices in the near future on the pasta and bakery products. Heat a blow not only for grain, but also fodder crops. Farmers have to buy has risen in price due to lack of fodder, which is 10-15% can raise the price of the cost of meat. All this could adversely affect the economy. According to a representative of the Higher School of Economics, Oksana Osipova, food prices could increase by 10-15% by the end of the year, which will affect the inflation that the government can not hold in a corridor of 5-7%.