The farming chamber of commerce condemned the Government’s order to freeze prices of a number of new staple products such as rice, eggs and pasta. The Government already froze the prices of bread, sugar, flour, vegetable oil, milk, cheese and meat.

In order for this measure to have a positive effect, it is necessary to stabilize the cost of our input expenses, meaning the raw materials and other costs that go into our production price, said Goran Georgievski from the Agro chamber.

The move, meant to put a muzzled on the inflation spikes, caused fears of possible food shortages as companies are facing production costs with the rise in the price of oil and the coming electricity price hike.