Ukraine: bread price 15 to 20 percent higher

Kiev / UA. (bau) Ukrainian bread prices will grow 15 to 20 percent, says the Ukrainian baker´s association «Ukrhlibprom». Their approximately 200 members are managing 385 bakeries and control 70 percent of the total bread output in the Ukraine. According to Oleksandr Vasylchenko, Ukrhlibprom General Director, prices growth is to be motivated with flour plants gradually switching on new grains crop flour production. «This year flour is much more expensive against last year», says Vasylchenko. Since January bakery products prices increased nine percent (flour 27 percent) in the Ukraine.