(ANSA) - PARIS, OCTOBER 25 - The price of the baguette, the famous and highly imitated loaf of bread, symbol of France, could increase in many bakeries in France.
Faced with a generalized rise in costs, bakers across the Alps - the so-called 'boulangers' - could in fact be induced to affect a part of it on customers.
"The cost of wheat, flour, energy, plus wages, packaging prices, is red alert", Dominique Anract, president of the Confédérationnationale de la boulangerie-patisserie française (CNBPF), warned on the France Info radio microphones. For him, an increase in baguette is to be expected in the coming weeks or even the next few days. Reason? The increase in the cost of wheat, which has risen by 30% since the beginning of the year due to the poor harvest in Russia due to drought and floods that has caused the supply to collapse. But also the rise in energy prices. Currently, in France, the standard baguette costs around 90 cents. However, the president of the CNBF would like to remind you that the cost of this basic food, so important that it was requested to be recognized as a heritage ofUnesco, it has grown by "only 23 cents in 20 years". (HANDLE).