Agro-industrial holding "Makfa", one of Russia's largest producers of pasta, from 1 February to 15% raised the wholesale selling price of their products due to a sharp rise in durum wheat. About it the correspondent. TASS reported sales Director "Makfa" Konstantin Popov.

"Over the past few months the varieties of durum wheat, which make pasta, has risen by almost three times. If at the end of 2014 on average, one ton of such wheat was worth 10-11 thousand rubles, but now the cost has risen to 27 to 30 thousand rubles per ton, - said Popov. We could not respond to the sharp rise in price of wheat. Therefore, from 1 February raised the wholesale and retail prices on pasta".

Popov noted that as much prices rose on pasta and in retail. Before the prices go up one kilo of pasta average cost 35 cents. Now the pasta stand 41-42 rubles per kilogram.

"We exclude the speculative prices of our products. We have about 150 distribution of firms in the regions. They watch it. Even if someone tries to inflate the prices of our products, the market will quickly bring them into compliance. On the Russian pasta market is highly competitive. Therefore, speculation on it excluded", - said the Director of sales "Makfa".

"Makfa" - Russian agro-industrial holding company, the manufacturer of pasta, flour, cereals. The main owner of the company is the former Governor of Chelyabinsk region Mikhail Yurevich. The company produces more than. 180 thousand tons of pasta products under the brands of "MAKFA", "Taste" and "Grand di Pasta" in the year that, by his own estimation, is 20% of the total production in Russia. The company manufactures more than 450 thousand tons of flour per year and about 10 thousand tons of cereals. The company has six production sites in Russia and delivers products to CIS countries, Afghanistan, Belgium, Israel, UAE.