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Will food prices fall after the government's comparison platform for basic food products goes live?

The Minister of Agriculture Yavor Gechev commented on the topic

Yavor Gechev was born on June 10, 1978 in Plovdiv.

He is an engineer-agronomist by education.

In 2001, in the program "Why, Mr. Minister?"

on BTV.

"On the site we made, people can compare prices in the cities. I hope that soon they will be able to compare the minimum prices that the food chains themselves will provide. The site is foodprice.bg and it is also already indexed in Google. We tried to make it is easily accessible. It is for users, for the media and for everyone who wants to find adequate, normal and guaranteed-of-origin information from the government," pointed out Minister Gechev.

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"The Ordinance on the central register of the Food Safety Agency is already under public discussion. This way we will have the complete information on the entire supply chain, so that the institutions themselves can check not only the quality of the food, but also the pricing. The prices that currently visible on the site are the average prices that are measured. A large number of grocery chains have said that they will participate in this initiative - they will provide the lowest prices in the chain on a given product. That product will be marked in a certain way , to know that this is part of it. They should have stock of this product for the whole week so that consumers are not fooled. If they are not sure about this product, it is better not to put it in the system. The prices will be there without promotions", explained Minister Gechev again.

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According to him, there are already both price calming and good promotions.

"The networks from next week will already provide information, at least five networks have promised to do so," he added.

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