# Chicken prices in Belarus up 30–50% depending on the chain

- URL: https://syn.by/en/society/chicken-prices-belarus-up-30-50/
- Published: 2026-11-07T04:00:25+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T05:05:37+00:00
- Section: Society
- Language: en
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/obshchestvo/tseny-na-kuryatinu-v-belarusi.md

> Chicken fillet in Minsk shops and delivery services costs from 16 to 21 rubles per kilogram. In Russia, wholesale chicken has risen 37% over the year.

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Chicken prices in Belarus have jumped by 30 or even 50 percent, depending on the retail chain. In one Santa shop in Minsk, a kilogram of chicken fillet costs almost 19 rubles, and various delivery services offer fillet at prices from 16 to 21 rubles.

Shoppers are comparing price tags on social media. One of them wrote that on 1 October fillet cost 11.69 at Evroopt, on 27 October she bought it for 13.71, and at Mayak it now costs 17.69. Another shopper, a Minsk resident, said she usually does not look at the price of chicken, but this time she could not bring herself to buy it and took turkey instead.

Back in October, shoppers were complaining about a shortage of chicken in Belarusian shops.

Many people traditionally blame Russia for the price rise. Andrei Bronisheuski says the reason may not lie only there.

The Russian market is indeed getting more expensive: wholesale chicken prices there rose 37 percent over the year as of 1 November, and over the month chicken rose by an average of 16 percent. Belarus has remained a key supplier of chicken meat to Russia for several years: last year's deliveries came to 170000 tonnes.

Another part of the explanation lies inside the industry. Poultry farms depend critically on imported breeding stock, packaging, vaccines and bio-additives, which are getting more expensive. According to an estimate cited in publications, imports account for 40–50 percent of Belarusian chicken, and imported feed and bio-additives make up 25–30 percent of production costs.

In the first half of the year alone, Belarus spent about 100 million dollars on imported feed. That is about 11 dollars per resident of a country that, according to World Bank data, had 9.1 million people in 2025.

Price jumps in meat like this have drawn regulators' attention before. In July 2018, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade (MART) launched an investigation into large poultry farms over a sudden rise in poultry prices. In September 2021, a commission approved a 4.9 percent increase in prices for meat and meat products.