What the butchers say about market adequacy
Consumers are already getting ready for the Easter table, which is expected to be more expensive than ever. Lambs and kids They have their honors every year, but several flocks have been hit by zoonoses and bad weather
Savvas Kesidis, president of the Pan -Hellenic Federation of Butcher shopkeepers, spoke on the show “Weekend at 5” ERT Whether there will be competence in the lambs and the prices will range.
“Daniel for 2.5 years have not been restored with a large volume of wretched mantle. Animals, such as smallpox and plague, have destroyed many flocks. We are currently at much less rates than what we would need for Lilac. Based on numbers we need 700,000 to 750,000, as they were slaughtered last year, apart from lambs that came from abroad and currently we have about 400,000 lambs and kids.
In consultation with the Ministry of Development and the Secretary -General, we were promised that there would be enough imports to keep this balance in order not to raise prices. However, prices are rising every day and we are waiting to see where they will stop so that we can serve the consumer. We are 15-20% more in price compared to last year. If they come Romanian as the ministry promised there will be competence, “he said, stressing that what will come from Romania will be sealed,” we calculate the government checks that the seals will be done normally. We demand that they are all sealed and to be sold Romanian (not to be baptized as Greek). “
