In the last few weeks the Easter foodstuffs have grown in price by 10%, President of the Armenian Consumer Association Armen Poghosyan told journalists on Wednesday.
Poghosyan said that the egg price have grown from 55-60 AMD to 76 AMD ($0.19). The fish and vegetable prices have also grown.
He urged the State Income Committee to prevent such peculations by imposing taxes on speculative gains. "One more way to prevent speculation on the agricultural market is to stimulate wholesale trade and procurements and to neutralize middlemen," Poghosyan said.
He complained that the State Commission on Protection of Economic Competition is doing nothing to prevent the pre-Easter rise in prices. On Mar 13 Chairman of the Commission Artak Shaboyan said that they had inspected the egg market and had warned five trade chains against groundless rise in prices. Spokesperson of the Commission Gayane Sahakyan says that in the last 20 days the egg prices in the chains have not been raised.
This year Easter in Armenia will be on Mar 31.