Fruit, vegetable prices expected to fall

Despite the opening of wholesale markets including vegetable and fruit markets, the prices of vegetables, fruits and chicken did not decrease.

Yesterday (Sunday), tomatoes were sold for Rs600 per kg in Rawalpindi and Rs750 per kg in Islamabad. These prices were associated to the absence of tomato trucks which would regularly arrive with a fresh load of the fruit but did not owing to holidays.

With the arrival of ten trucks of tomatoes today at the market, the prices are likely to decrease. The holidays of price control magistrates have also ended and they are expected to reach the markets to check and enforce approved rates from today (Monday).

In the open market, live chicken is selling for Rs550 per kg, chicken meat for Rs840 per kg. Eggs are priced at Rs260 per dozen, mutton at Rs2,350 per kg, beef at Rs1,300 per kg, milk at Rs210 per litre, yogurt at Rs230 per kg, potatoes at Rs80 to 90 per kg, onion at Rs250 to 300, garlic at Rs750 per kg, ginger at Rs720, okra at Rs400, green chilli at Rs300, peas at Rs180, bitter gourd at Rs150 per kg.

Radish is being sold at Rs40 per kg, carrots at Rs50, pumpkin at Rs200, lemons at Rs400, lemon at Rs180 per kg, coriander leaves at Rs50 per bundle, apples at Rs300 to 350 per kg, pomegranates at Rs400 per kg, maltas at Rs400 per dozen, bananas at Rs200 to 230 per dozen, guavas at Rs200 to 250 per kg, grapes at Rs300 per kg, watermelons at Rs200 per kg, melons at Rs180 per kg, white gram at Rs400 per kg, red beans at Rs390 per kg, daal chana at Rs300, daal maash at Rs500 per kg, ghee at Rs550 per kg, sugar at Rs160 per kg, rice at Rs400 per kg and tea at Rs2700 per kg.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 16^th, 2024.