Hungary: Drastic price increases are coming in bakeries

Due to the increase in raw materials, wages and transportation costs, the price of bread in Hungary is constantly increasing. As Ferenc Varga, a member of the Csongrád-Csanád county presidency of the Hungarian Bakers' Association, explained, there was now a price increase, the wholesale price of bread is around 350-400 forints. Since a kilo of bread is made from 75 deca flours, the price of the flour is a determining factor - you can read on the Delmagyar.hu website. - said Ferenc Varga, who is also the head of the Varga Bakery in Mórahalom and Áásotthalom. According to the expert, the good question is why the price of flour is rising. Farmers and mills grind in a team. Farmers have become very strong, they have built huge reservoirs, for which there have been plenty of good EU tenders, and they are storing the flour smartly. They are not forced to sell right away, but store and monitor market conditions. I can’t do that because the bread can’t be stored. Farmers have been in a ...