Consumer inflation rose by 1.3 percent year-on-year in Serbia, driven to some degree by rapid prices rises for food items like fruit. The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia found that prices for apples, which cost between RSD 30 and RSD 70 per kilo in April last year, were selling for between RSD 70 and RSD 100. Lemons topped out at RSD 150 per kilo in 2019 but are now starting and RSD 180 and rising to as much as RSD 300, largely in response to the cutting off of exports from Turkey. Orange prices in Serbia were RSD 30 more expensive per kilo this year than in 2019. Professor of the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade Zoran Keserovic blamed the steep increase in apple prices on a poor harvest last in Poland. Serbian exports to Russia jumped as a result, which had the knock-on effect of increasing prices at home.
