No Raise of Bread Price in Bulgaria until September

The price of Bulgarian bread is not expected to go up until the end of August. However, this might happen after the introduction of a new Bulgarian stardard for bread. Photo by BGNES

The price of bread will not go up in the next two months, the Chair of the Regional Union of Bread and Pastry Manufacturers from the Bulgarian city of Dobrich has announced.

“I do not expect a raise in the price of bread until the end of August,” the Chair Toshko Nyagolov said Tuesday and added that the price of bread has not changed since the fall of 2009 and it stays between BGN 0.9 and BGN 1 per kg.

Nyagolov noted that the real price of bread is between BGN 1.5 and BGN 1.6 per kg or between BGN 0.9 and BGN 1 per 700g.

“Now we work on the verge of survival. The bread-making field provides the smallest salaries – between BGN 300 and BGN 400, and many manufacturers have cut the staff by 30% and 50%,” he said.

Nyagolov added that in February the Union proposed the introduction of new Bulgarian standard for the bread.

“We hope that this will happen soon, and then the price of bread will be totally different after we stop using many supplements that currently replace the flour,” Nyagolov said.

In the beginning of July, the Bulgarian government announced it will introduce the state standard for the production of "real" yogurt.

According to Dimitar Zorov, President of the Association of Milk producers, the implementation of the state standard will not lead to increase in the price of yogurt.

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