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KRASNODAR, December 14 Egg production in the Krasnodar region increased this year by 1.3 billion pieces, poultry meat — by three thousand tons and reached 173 thousand tons, said Deputy Governor of the region Andrei Korobka.
At the big annual press conference of the head of state Vladimir Putin, combined with a direct line, a resident of Krasnodar asked a question about increasing prices for chicken eggs and poultry meat. The president apologized for the rise in egg prices and said it was a government failure. According to him, the reason for the increase in prices is associated with an increase in demand for eggs as a result of an increase in household incomes, while production volumes remained at the same level, and imports were not opened on time. Putin stressed that the situation with egg prices will improve.
«»The volume of poultry production for slaughter since the beginning of the year amounted to 173 thousand tons, which is three thousand tons more than in the same period last year, eggs — 1 billion 303.5 million, which is eight million more than for the same period last year,” said the vice-governor.
It was reported that the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation expects prices for chicken eggs to stabilize in the next month due to import supplies.