Retailers in the Altai region do not have time to put buckwheat on the shelves, buyers it immediately "sweep", the prices for buckwheat has increased significantly: a week ago, 800-gram packet of cereals "Maria" was worth 25.5 RUB over the weekend - already 49.9 roubles, informs "Interfax".

The shelves of most shops are empty, the staff of retail outlets confirm the existence of hype around buckwheat and say that croup is swept away by the buyers as soon as you receive.

One of the wholesalers, Alaska in the Altai region said that the barley is not offered for sale, because in the near future is expected to increase prices for buckwheat.

Recall that in early November, retailers and wholesalers of Altai Krai (the main producer and supplier of buckwheat in Russia) said about the lack of buckwheat in connection with the harvest of this crop in the current season. Supplier declarations caused an increased demand for buckwheat and increased prices. Repeats the situation in 2010, when and the Altai region was assembled weak crop of buckwheat, and prices soared upwards, and the shelves were empty.

In mid-November of this year, Governor Alexander Karlin turned through your blog to the residents of the region with a request not to do additional food supplies, saying that "the mission barns Altai Krai performs even in abnormal weather conditions, and to create a "balcony" stocks of flour, cereals and vegetable oils there is no need".

"I declare with all responsibility that: the weather conditions in spring and autumn this year in the Altai region, serious threats to the food market, Altai Krai is not present!", - wrote the head of the region and added that this year formed the necessary supply of buckwheat, and "unharvested crop Packed in rolls and is under the snow", waits for spring threshing.

In early November, the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation statedthat Russia fully secured buckwheat, and cereals deficit will not.

With all of this some time ago, the General Director of LLC Prozerno" Vladimir Petrichenko reported that the price of buckwheat in the protected area reached 40 thousand rubles per ton, while in the middle of October a ton of buckwheat was worth a little more than 17 thousand rubles. "The harvest will be below average - and the price is sky-high the moon", - said the expert. Portal Agro2b.ru also reportedthat in the Sverdlovsk region retail buckwheat prices have risen by almost three times.