The increase in egg prices in Russia from December 12 to 18 remained at 4.6%

Moscow. 20th of December. INTERFAX.RU - The efforts of the authorities to influence egg prices in the Russian Federation seem to have begun to produce the first results - the growth rate has stopped accelerating and for the week from December 12 to 18 remained at the previous level. As Rosstat reported on Wednesday, eggs rose in price by 4.6%. The figure was the same a week earlier. Since the beginning of the year, prices have jumped by 52.9%. This is the highest growth rate in the food market. Compared to the same period in November, eggs rose in price by 12%. In 46 regions prices increased by 0.1-5%, in 36 - by 5.1-14.4%. In the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, prices have not changed. In the Tula region and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - they decreased by 3.5% and 0.2%, respectively. At the same time, the decline in prices for chicken meat, which began two weeks earlier, from December 12 to 18 accelerated to 0.6% from 0.4%. In 55 regions, chicken prices fell by 0.1-9%. In 6 ...