Farmers and food producers are asking trade to be more accommodating to domestic production. If chains in Austria or Germany can do that, why not in Slovakia?
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They call for clearer indications of the origin of food, better navigation to the counters and a number of other “things of course”. Martin Krajčovič
On the sidelines of future prices, the head of SAMO stated that negotiations are individual between each supplier and customer and that a third party cannot enter into them by law.
He reminded that the price of Slovak food mainly reflects the high price of labor caused by the high contribution burden of workers in agri-food, dysfunctional seasonal employment system, including seasonal employment of foreigners and long-term underfunding of the agri-food sector. Read more Head of the Poultry Union on Slovak behavior: Cuts cost 4 euros, the higher the price, the less customers
Therefore, the requirements for increasing sales prices are higher from Slovak suppliers than from their competitors from the surrounding countries, despite the fact that today, on average, sales prices for Slovak suppliers are higher than for foreign ones.
they are doing everything they can to ensure the highest quality products at the best possible prices, especially today, when inflation is coming across almost all sectors.
ensure a share of 60 to 70 percent – many have such a share. He added that the trade agrees with a number of arguments from poultry, some do not. In addition, mandatory labeling is contrary to European law, as evidenced by the rulings of the European Court of Justice, so requesting it from the state does not create a favorable relationship between the state, suppliers and customers. to the alarming drop between the support of domestic poultry by the state compared to the Czech Republic or Poland. Even in the case of poultry, it is obligatory to indicate where the animal was reared and where it was slaughtered, ie when buying poultry, the consumer knows this. This information is visible and legible, and if the producer wants, he can easily put the Slovak flag on his product. Traders even voluntarily flag products at price tags wherever they think it makes sense and can support the sale of Slovak food
However, there are some categories that could be harmed by the Slovak flag because customers they prefer foreign food. A typical example is pasta or pasta sauces, where customers prefer a different origin than Slovak. However, to give a legal obligation to mark products with the Slovak flag with the intention of favoring them on the market is contrary to the rules of the functioning of the European single market.
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