Christmas table: Why any price increase in meat is unjustified

Any increase in its price will be unjustified meat – and more specifically in the lamb and the goat – in view of the Christmas and the New Year, according to what the Deputy Minister of Rural Development, Christos Kellas, said today (10.12.2024) to ertnews.

And this because, according to Mr. There is probably enough meat on the market (as the Christmas holidays are approaching) as the landscape is “clear” from the sheep and goat plague front, while at the moment there is no case of smallpox and the slaughterhouses are going on as usual.

At the same time, he said that the (increased) compensations for the animals killed due to plague and smallpox have been given, a 100% subsidy program will “run” for the purchase of new animals for those breeders who killed them, while probably after the holidays in the Ministry of Agricultural Development will announce specific amounts and method of payment of compensation for animal feed to the breeders who had their animals locked “inside” for up to 5 months (and thus fully covered their own feeding costs).

It is recalled that a few days ago, the general secretary of trade (Ministry of Development), Sotiris Anagnostopoulos, had estimated that there may even be reductions in some meats.