From + 63.5% of seed oil which is becoming unavailable to + 8.4% of bread, the expensive energy fueled by the war infects the prices in the shopping cart with increases that hit companies and consumers' tables hard.
This is what emerges from the Coldiretti study, which has drawn up a black list of the increases on the shelf based on Istat inflation surveys in April 2022, comparing them with those of a year ago, and on the eve of Cibus which opens on May 3 and foresees the exhibition War on the plate.
If the prices of food and drinks have increased by an average of 6.3%, seed oils are at the top of the price increases, especially sunflower oils - underlines Coldiretti - which is affected by the conflict in Ukraine which is one of the main producers ;
in second place is flour, with prices rising by 17.2% driven by increases in wheat, and in third place for butter (+ 15.7%).
Double-digit increases also for pasta (+ 14.1%) with the rush to shop in supermarkets to stock up, followed by chicken meat (+ 12.2%) and fresh vegetables (+ 12%).
Following in the ranking of increases, there are seafood with + 10.2%, ice cream at + 9.5%, eggs with + 9.3%, while bread, which costs 8.4%, closes the ranking. more than last year.
If prices for families run, the increase in costs hits the entire agri-food chain hard, starting from the countryside where - explains Coldiretti - there are cost increases ranging from + 170% of fertilizers to + 90% of feeds to + 129% for diesel with increases in current costs of over € 15,700 on average but with peaks of over € 47 thousand for dairy farms and peaks of up to € 99 thousand for chicken farms, according to the Crea study. "