{"id":497085,"date":"2025-11-18T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=497085"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:40:01","slug":"mart-explains-how-off-season-vegetable-prices-were-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/mart-explains-how-off-season-vegetable-prices-were-set","title":{"rendered":"MART Explains How Off-Season Vegetable Prices Were Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus has introduced maximum retail price caps for potatoes, effective from 15 November. The Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade (MART) <b>Artur Karpovich<\/b> explained to the newspaper Respublika how these prices were determined.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cEvery figure has been carefully calculated, including, in particular, the costs incurred by agricultural organisations for cultivation \u2014 weather conditions challenged our farmers this year, but they managed to set acceptable producer prices. These figures also include storage costs, delivery, and the retail markup.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, these prices represent the maximum that a customer should see on the shop shelf. They may be lower. But not higher \u2014 that would constitute a violation of pricing legislation.<\/p>\n<p>This entails fines. In cases of major or repeated violations, we may also temporarily suspend a store\u2019s operations \u2014 we have that authority. Naturally, we will examine the entire chain: if a producer \u2018made a mistake\u2019, they will be held responsible; if it was the retailer, then they will be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum retail prices per kilogram are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>potatoes \u2014 1.07 roubles,<\/li>\n<li>beetroots \u2014 1.17 roubles,<\/li>\n<li>carrots \u2014 1.35 roubles,<\/li>\n<li>cabbage \u2014 1.62 roubles,<\/li>\n<li>onions \u2014 1.68 roubles,<\/li>\n<li>apples \u2014 4.8 roubles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One Belarusian rouble is approximately equal to 0.29 euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus has introduced maximum retail price caps for potatoes, effective from 15 November. The Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade (MART) Artur Karpovich explained to the newspaper Respublika how these prices were determined. \u201cEvery figure has been carefully calculated, including, in particular, the costs incurred by agricultural organisations for cultivation \u2014 weather conditions challenged our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/691c06b93d341.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"MART Explains How Off-Season Vegetable Prices Were Set"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}