PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities have sharply increased owing to recent unprecedented hikes in prices of petroleum products, according to a weekly market survey carried out by media here on Sunday.
The survey observed the prices of almost all daily use items, including live chicken/meat, vegetable, flour, cooking oil/ghee, sugar, milk powder, pack milk, diapers etc.
Traders and shopkeepers have attributed that prices have gradually gone up due to doubling the transport charges after an excessive hike in fuel prices.
On the other hand, Buyers criticised that shopkeepers have charged them with self-imposed prices against the official fixed rates in name of fuel price hike. There is no authority to keep check on overcharging and action against hoarders in the city, Naeem Akhtar told this scribe while buying cooking oil in Peshawar’s Ashraf Road Market. Akhtar blamed the incumbent rulers for making the life of common man miserable, added prices are completely out of their purchasing power.
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The survey noted the price of one-kilogram live chicken had gone up at Rs490 which was selling at Rs430 per kilogramme in the previous week as compared to preceding week, showing an increase of Rs60 per kilogramme.
There is no change in price of cow meat. One kilogramme of cow meat without bone was available at Rs1350. Mutton beef was being sold from Rs 2500 to Rs 3000 per kg in the open market, the survey added.
People have complained local hotels have sharply increased charges on pretext of increasing LPG and petroleum prices. They said the tandoorwala also charged double the price of low-weight roti.
Tomatoes were sold at Rs100-120 while onion was being sold at Rs100 against the price Rs70 per kg whereas ginger was available at Rs 600 and garlic was at Rs300-400/kg in the retail market, the survey added. Green chilli was being sold at Rs80 per kg whereas lemon was being sold at Rs100 per kilogramme.
Peas was being sold at Rs150 per kg, capsicum at Rs120 per kilogramme, lady finger at Rs 200-300 per kilogramme, Arvi at Rs 150-200 per kilogramme, turnip at Rs 100 per kilogramme, Eggplant (bringle) at Rs 100 per kilogramme, Zucchini (tori) at Rs 120-150 per kilogramme, Tinda Rs 100 per kilogramme, cabbage at Rs 120 per kilogramme, red-coloured potatoes available at Rs 70 per kilogramme while white-coloured potatoes are sold at Rs 50 per kilogramme in the retail market, the survey said.
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