It States that the prices of food products this year at an average increase of 3-4% rather than the 3-5 percent reported in December. However, meat prices, experts predict, will grow more than 7-9% by the end of the year.

One of the main authors of the new report Sylvain, Charlebois said that this jump is due to low reserves as the farmers growing cattle and pigs, and grocery retailers.

The report also says that fruit prices will rise by 5%, and vegetables 4% due to a rainy winter in California, caused the loss of the crop.

As the price of dairy products, eggs, bakery products and cereals, they, on the contrary, will decrease by 1-3%. According to the previous report, it was expected that they will remain unchanged or will grow to a maximum of 2%.

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