Shortcomings, precision, unimaginable deviations from the producer to the consumer but also the nightmare of zoonoses, this year’s Easter will leave its own special and unique but also very expensive imprint.
First are the prices. Expensive prices. The prices are structured as follows:
– Fresh bulk milk lamb rib (Greek) : 18.05€
– Whole milk goat (Greek): €10.98
-Milk leg of lamb (Greek): €12.95
– Milk goat leg (Greek): €13.50
– Agrinio milk lamb: €15
-10 kg of meat: From €109.80 – €180.50
The Live News investigation, however, also looked for the cheapest of the cheap, and found them mainly in hypermarkets, i.e. supermarkets, where the prices are between 9 and 10 euros, as the large quantities allow a large drop in prices. And here, however, the table will be filled at great cost:
-Greek lamb (hand – ribs): €9.90
-10 kg: €99
-Greek goat (thigh): €10.90
-10 kg: €109
If the prices are compared with last year, the shock is unimaginable and the pain in the pocket unprecedented for Easter 2023 in a report the Economic Postman said:
“Fresh Greek lamb at 9.90 euros per kilo from 10.45 euros per kilo which was the price last Wednesday, while goat, also Greek, the price did not change (10.9 euros per kilo).
Accuracy has “taken off”.
That is, this year the cheapest goat is 4.5 euros more expensive, while there is no ceiling since lamb and goat can get a 40 euro increase, do you want to see the worst? Filling in the pieces of the puzzle, older video to be exact from 2021 this shot. Local fresh milk goat lambs only 6.99, in another shop at 5.99€ in 2024 in Varvakeio 10.99
-2021: €59.90 – €69.90 / 10 kg
-2024: €109.90 / 10 kg
-Increase: From €40 – €50
The reasons for the accuracy are many, the Economic Postman reveals:
Lambs will be less and more expensive this year. Shortages in the Greek market this Easter, due to increased exports, over 20%, to Italy, Spain, Germany and Portugal.
In an unsuspecting time, accuracy was seen coming to the consumer’s pocket, and how else can it be done when the wholesale price is 9 euros
Over 9 euros per kilo, the lamb will be sold by the breeders, otherwise they will not… come out, as the breeders from Kastoria pointed out, write “Ta Nea”.
With these in mind, consumers are both scared and skeptical, the anxiety that the lamb or goat entered the country with a passport and they sell it to them for Greek is great and justified.
However, some good news about the course of prices comes even at the last minute. But on the other hand, will the middlemen keep the prices or will they go for super profits? Breeders will sell their lamb goats for between 7 and 7.5 euros. A large number will be missing from the Greek market.
But look at this from the other side, it’s the other side. “Flying” up to 12 euros for lamb in Lesvos. The price of lamb on the wholesale market reaches up to 10.8 euros.
Don’t think that insularity is the only thing that affects prices. Athens prices in Kalamata
According to a report by “E” in Kalamata butchers, their price ranges from 13 to 14 euros per kilo. Another issue that has arisen due to the fact that Easter falls late, is that the animals are a little heavier, reaching 16 kilos, since the weather has allowed them to grow. At the same time, people mainly want lambs and goats between 10-12 kg.
Added to the explosive cocktail of supply demand and a variety of problems are zoonotic diseases with livestock farmers protesting:
The livestock farmers of the Municipality of Lokron in Fthiotida remain without any substantial support, who are faced with the unbearable economic consequences of the smallpox disease that struck herds in the area.
But the consumer may be concerned that the veterinarians who check the carcasses are heading for a strike that will obviously affect the market as despite the declaration of the strike as illegal, the geotechnicians say they are determined to continue their fight to assert their just demands .
The breeder, Thanasis Stamos, spoke to LIVE NEWS.
“We sell for 8 euros, but in Athens they buy for 18 euros. The lamb must be tagged.’
megatv.com
