KYIV, January 1 The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine signed with representatives of associations that produce social significant goods, a memorandum that sets the marginal markup for gas produced in Ukraine at 25%, said Minister Roman Leshchenko. Earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ordered gas producing companies to sell 20% of the gas produced in the country on the exchange. According to the Minister, this is primarily on the producers of bread, flour, dairy products, sunflower oil, eggs and chicken. «The optimal maximum level of supply and marketing mark-up to the price of natural gas of own production at the level of no more than 25% to meet the needs of business entities whose main activity is social important food products, «Leshchenko wrote on Facebook. Ukrainian general warned about the terrible future of the country. Earlier, the president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Bakers Yuriy Duchenko said that for the bakery industry to survive amid rising gas prices, it is necessary to raise bread prices by 30%. In addition, the president of the Ukrkondprom association, Oleksandr Baldynyuk, said that Ukrainian confectionery enterprises would stop working in the event of a rise in gas prices in January. After that, the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine announced that the rapid rise in gas prices from January 1, 2022 threatens to stop the entire dairy industry in country.
Ukraine was warned that the rise in utility tariffs would bury the economy
