Popular meat in Ukraine will become more expensive due to blackouts: by how much can the price increase

Prices for chicken in Ukraine due to the shelling of energy infrastructure by Russian occupiers may increase by 5 to 10 hryvnias per kilogram. This was reported in a comment to "Telegraph" by Oksana Ruzhenkova, an expert from the World Bank on the development of fruit and vegetable production. Indeed, every production now depends on the supply of electricity, including the meat industry. Therefore, entrepreneurs always consider possible risks and include potential losses in the cost of the product. However, prices for chicken meat will not drastically increase because producers will be selling off their stock while it remains fresh. Ruzhenkova notes that in the case of a difficult situation, entrepreneurs will be forced to reduce the number of poultry. Moreover, in an extreme case, they may even lower the prices of their products to sell them before they spoil. In the same case, if any chicken producers or retail networks try to unreasonably raise prices on this product, the ...