2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
For the Easter holidays this year, the local food chains will offer us fresh lamb from Troyan. An inspection shows that a whole lamb before Easter can cost about 100 leva.
Bulgarian farmers have started negotiating the prices of lamb from now on, and according to expert forecasts for these holidays, lamb will be 1 lev cheaper than last year.
For this Easter, food chains are expected to offer Bulgarian meat mainly from Troyan, unlike in previous years, when hams and shoulders were imported from New Zealand and Australia.
In 2013 there was no serious shortage of Bulgarian meat and it is expected that this Easter we will also be able to buy from the native lamb.
Bulgarian breeders have announced that they are ready to offer lamb at prices between BGN 5 and 8 per kilogram.
If you buy in bulk, it will be cheaper. For one piece the tariff is BGN 5.70 per kilogram”- the farmers share.
According to the chairman of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets Eduard Stoychev, for now it is not possible to talk about exact prices of lamb.
"It is still too early to say what the wholesale price of lamb will be. It will be clear two weeks before Easter "- explained Stoychev.
The prices of lamb around last year's Easter varied between BGN 12 and 15 per kilogram, although even then no large increase in values was forecast.
Meat for the holiday table is twice as cheap if bought from farmers. That is why every year we get fresh lamb from breeders from Parvomay”- share the Bulgarians, who traditionally prepare lamb for the festive table every year.
Many breeders recommend consumers to buy lambs from their home farms because they guarantee the quality of the meat they will consume.
Experts have warned that often meat in stores that is only declared chilled has actually been deep-frozen and then processed in a special way to make it look fresh.
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