The start of the previous work week found the residents of Zaporizhzhia oblast faced with increased retail prices for bread and flour products. The populace, however, did not respond with any special chagrin — perhaps because people had expected the prices to jump and local authorities used every occasion to assure them that the increase would be soft-pedaled. Zaporizhzhia's Bakery #3 reports that the cost of a loaf has increased by 4 kopeks, account of 7-11-kopek rise in the delivery charges . Pasta and related products went up 2 kopeks.
“The bread cost increase is explained by increased delivery charges,” Svitlana Tiabyna, head of the local state administration's price- setting department, told The Day, adding that “the Zaporizhnaftoprodukt [Zaporizhzhia Committee for Oil Products] was instructed to supply enough fuel for all means of transport used in bread deliveries, also ambulances, municipal tow trucks, mobile repair stations, fire engines (e.g., UAH 2.0 per A-76 gasoline and UAH 1.6 per liter of diesel fuel). However, it did not succeed in maintaining the bread costs at the previous level. Owing to increased delivery charges, the price of a loaf of bread had gone up 4-6 kopeks in the urban and 11-15 kopeks in the rural areas. Wholesale disbursing prices registered no increase, at any oblast bakery. When asked about prospects, Svitlana Tiabyna noted that bread prices will increase if the oblast fails to get enough 1999 crop supplies at last year's costs.
N.B.: Ukrainian Agrarian Exchange's press service reports that Ukraine may experience a serious grain shortage on the domestic market unless current negative trends in the agrarian sector are overcome. If worst comes to worst, Ukraine's 1999-2000 national grain reserve may prove the smallest over the past five years and this domestic shortage will have to be dealt with using imports. Agrarian exchange experts predict that lower bread grain supply will be caused by the expected gross grain yield decline, particularly by reduced Class 3 and 4 bread grain deliveries (from 76% in 1998 to 50% in 1991). This fall's crop intake is expected at 25.5-26.5 million tons, including up to 14 million t of wheat. Last year saw an intake of 14.5 million tons of wheat and the national reserve amounted to 2 million tons at the start of the year.
The start of the previous work week found the residents of Zaporizhzhia oblast faced with increased retail prices for bread and flour products. The populace, however, did not respond with any special chagrin — perhaps because people had expected the prices to jump and local authorities used every occasion to assure them that the increase would be soft-pedaled. Zaporizhzhia's Bakery #3 reports that the cost of a loaf has increased by 4 kopeks, account of 7-11-kopek rise in the delivery charges . Pasta and related products went up 2 kopeks.
“The bread cost increase is explained by increased delivery charges,” Svitlana Tiabyna, head of the local state administration's price- setting department, told The Day, adding that “the Zaporizhnaftoprodukt [Zaporizhzhia Committee for Oil Products] was instructed to supply enough fuel for all means of transport used in bread deliveries, also ambulances, municipal tow trucks, mobile repair stations, fire engines (e.g., UAH 2.0 per A-76 gasoline and UAH 1.6 per liter of diesel fuel). However, it did not succeed in maintaining the bread costs at the previous level. Owing to increased delivery charges, the price of a loaf of bread had gone up 4-6 kopeks in the urban and 11-15 kopeks in the rural areas. Wholesale disbursing prices registered no increase, at any oblast bakery. When asked about prospects, Svitlana Tiabyna noted that bread prices will increase if the oblast fails to get enough 1999 crop supplies at last year's costs.
N.B.: Ukrainian Agrarian Exchange's press service reports that Ukraine may experience a serious grain shortage on the domestic market unless current negative trends in the agrarian sector are overcome. If worst comes to worst, Ukraine's 1999-2000 national grain reserve may prove the smallest over the past five years and this domestic shortage will have to be dealt with using imports. Agrarian exchange experts predict that lower bread grain supply will be caused by the expected gross grain yield decline, particularly by reduced Class 3 and 4 bread grain deliveries (from 76% in 1998 to 50% in 1991). This fall's crop intake is expected at 25.5-26.5 million tons, including up to 14 million t of wheat. Last year saw an intake of 14.5 million tons of wheat and the national reserve amounted to 2 million tons at the start of the year.






