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Up to 92 percent: These foods have become more expensive during the Corona crisis

2021-03-16T09:04:56.491Z


Many customers have already noticed: During the Corona crisis, purchases have become more expensive. These foods in particular have risen in price.


Many customers have already noticed: During the Corona crisis, purchases have become more expensive.

These foods in particular have risen in price.

  • The coronavirus and its effects have left their mark on German farmers.

  • There are various reasons why food has become more expensive.

  • You can find out which foods are affected here.

The crisis that the spread of the coronavirus triggered in Germany can be felt in all areas of life.

Exit restrictions, contact bans, closed schools, endangered jobs ... Unfortunately, the crisis is also making itself felt in the shopping of everyday groceries - not only through the notorious hamstering *.

A lot of fresh food has also become more expensive.

These foods were more expensive in 2020 - not just because of the Corona crisis

Update from March 16, 2021:

According to the AMI freshness index (AMI: Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft), consumers had to

pay 4.2 percent more for fresh food in

2020

than in 2019. But contrary to what you might think, the outbreak of the coronavirus only had a few effects on the price development of the product groups.

An inflation rate of 3.4 percent was already recorded at the beginning of 2020, which rose to a high of 10 percent in the spring.

Vegetables

in particular rose in price in April

as there was a lack of seasonal workers in many places due to entry restrictions, which meant that fewer goods were available.

Even

pork

cost in comparison to the previous year more, mainly due to African swine fever in China, such

ami-informiert.de

reported. 

With the

sales tax cut

from July 2020, which resulted in only 5 percent instead of 7 percent being levied on food, the rate of inflation gradually weakened again.

In autumn, the rate of inflation for fresh food only fluctuated between 2 and 3 percent.

In December, the rate even fell into negative territory for the first time: Consumers paid

0.2 percent less

on fresh food than in the previous year.

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These foods have become more expensive

Original article:

Dairy product

prices

increased between January and March 2020.

This is shown by figures from the Agricultural Market Information Society (AMI), according to

Business Insider

.

The price for milk rose by 5.2 percent in the period mentioned, that for quark by 9.7 percent and for butter and butter products cost an average of 11.7 percent more than in the same period of the previous year, the portal calculates.

But the

prices for many types of fruit and vegetables

have also risen noticeably in some cases, with vegetables by an average of 26.3 percent and with fruit by 14.2 percent, and are a burden on the wallet of people who want to eat fresh and balanced food:

Food

Price increase

Apples

+ 25%

Pears

+ 30%

zucchini

+ 92%

broccoli

+ 69%

cauliflower

+ 63%

Kohlrabi

+ 62%

paprika

+ 56%

Lettuce

+ 33%

Carrots

+ 4%

Source: AMI

But there are also foods for which the

prices have fallen

.

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These foods have become cheaper

For example, onions (-18 percent) and white cabbage (-18 percent) have become cheaper.

These products come from stock and are now allowed to make room.

You

can also buy

potatoes

*

much cheaper than last year (-12 percent).

Here, first, from 2019 was the harvest very good, on the other hand, the demand is lacking in catering for French fries and Co. This fact also pushes the

prices for products from beef and pork

.

These have also become more expensive - pork by 17.2 percent, beef by 3.9 percent - but much more restrained, since there is also a lack of demand from the catering industry.

These declines in sales are currently not being offset by private customers.

To what extent these prices will hold up when the restaurants can reopen remains to be seen.

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That is why the prices of fruit and vegetables are rising

The list of worries for German farmers is usually long and has been extended considerably in the last few weeks.

Price wars

, the

lack of rain and now the corona crisis

were

causing problems

for farmers and increasing prices for customers,

Business Insider

reports

.

The

lack of harvest workers

due to the border

closings

initially received a great deal of media attention

.

Thousands of seasonal workers were and are lacking not only in asparagus cultivation, but also in many other areas.

The

lack of sales from the catering and hotel industry

is also noticeable everywhere.

Last but not least, the exit restrictions and the uncertainty when shopping led many people to

prefer storable products and reluctance to

buy

fresh foods

, such as fruit, vegetables and especially meat, as the farmers' association complained in its situation report of April 2nd, 2020.

However, this situation has stabilized in the meantime, hamstering plays a much smaller role.

However, the lack of income is offset by

higher costs

.

Since grain was also very popular among storable products, these capacities were lacking in the feed markets, according to Business Insider.

At the same time, the green fodder yield is lower, as the previously relatively warm and dry spring has inhibited the growth of grasses and the like.

The dry weather also caused the

first crop failures

.

The sum of the higher costs and crop failures are now also affecting customers and causing displeasure at the checkout.

It remains to be seen how the situation will develop.

The traditional German company Haribo is also struggling with the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.

The raw materials for the production of the popular fruit gums became more expensive, which is why Haribo also had to raise the price of their products - major buyer Lidl will take the consequence in August 2020.

(ante) * Merkur.de and tz.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

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These foods can be frozen

Did you know?

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List of rubric lists: © FrankHoermann / SVEN SIMON via www.imago-images.de

Source: merkur

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