2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A Eurostat survey shows that Bulgarians now pay twice as much when buying lemons, dairy products and green beans as in 2008.
Some of the products that must be present on our table every day have jumped by more than 100% in a very short time.
Lemons, for example, jumped from BGN 2.28 per kilogram to a staggering BGN 5.25 per kilogram wholesale, according to the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets. At retail, a kilo of citrus fruits reaches even 8-10 leva, dissatisfied customers complain.
So lemons turned out to be even more expensive than steaks.
At the moment, there are very low imports of lemons from faraway Latin America, because there is a hole in the crops, said the head of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges Eduard Stoychev.
According to him, the high duty on EU imports has made citrus fruits more expensive on Bulgarian markets. In addition, Brussels recently banned the import of lemons from South Africa for fear that citrus diseases could be transmitted to Europe.
An increase was registered with the oil on our markets, which has jumped by 85 stotinki in just one year and its price is now BGN 1.32. Other dairy products, such as yellow cheese and cheese, also rose sharply.
Yellow cheese has risen in price by 20%, and its wholesale price per kilogram is now BGN 11.15. For the last year, the cheese has also risen by a lev, as its current wholesale values of BGN 5.71 per kilogram.
Prices for green beans and cabbage have also doubled in recent years. Wholesale beans are available for BGN 1.20 per kilogram. According to experts, the reason for the higher price is the lower yield of green beans.
According to the data, Bulgarians pay 69% more than the average price of these products on international exchanges, which does not meet our standard of living.
To show that this is far beyond our means, the experts compared us to Poles, whose average salary is two and a half times higher than ours, but who fill their refrigerators for less money than us.
Poles pay 62% more than the average price for the same products.
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