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Extremely adverse weather conditions led Ukrainian agrarians to harvest a very small grain crops. Therefore, this autumn the food prices will jump up, the exports will decrease and the pressure on the hryvnia will increase.

Only the optimistic statement made by the government lightens up this gloomy picture. Thus, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, the weather did not affect the crop much, and it will not be much worse than last year. Cabmin (Cabinet of Ministers) predicts the harvest of the grains cultures at the level of 46-47 million tons.

Agrarians themselves are called official words to be nonsense, and say that harvest will be significantly reduced. For example, in the Crimea, the yield fell by three times. "This year Ukraine will bring the worst harvest in the past five years. It will be about 40 million tons", - the president of the Ukrainian club of agrarian business (UCAB), Lissitsa Alex, is convinced.

The losses are estimated at 40 billion hryvnia by the agricultural sector of UCAB , but only 5.5 are caused by bad weather. What's more important is that Ukrainian Most importantly grain prices are below world prices: because of this, agrarians will lose 29 billion UAH(hryvnia), and increase in the price of land rent will increase their spending by another 4.5 billion.

For the ordinary consumers crop failure will increased food prices. World prices for agricultural products grow for the second consecutive month, and this tendency captures more and more countries. Thus, the increase in grain prices will pull along with itself, first of all, prices for meat and milk, as well as cereals and flour. For example, the cost of pig to feed accounts for 60%, due to rising corn prices, this component is increased by a quarter, and that is another 15% added to the price of the final product.

More or less the same rise in price is expected for dairy products and poultry. In the bread branch , where prime cost of the unit weight of flour in higher, prices could jump up by 20%. As a result, in November, it will be possible to observe an acceleration of inflation.

Economists also warn that hiding the truth by the Cabinet of Ministers about the real state of affairs in the agricultural sector can play a dirty trick against the government itself: the real incomes of the budget will be significantly lower than planned. The lowering of foreign exchange earnings from exports of the grains will create additional pressure on the national currency, and may be another factor in its devaluation.