Rice, flour, sugar prices up in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of rice, flour and sugar have increased while other items’ rates remain steadying during the outgoing week in capital Kabul, market sources said Saturday.

Mohammad Hamayon, head of Kabul Food Traders Union, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the price of 49 kilograms of Pakistani sugar was increased from 1,860 Afghanis to 1,940 Afghanis, 49 kilograms of Kazakhstani flour from 1,360afs to 1,400afs and 24kg of Pakistani rice form 2,000afs to 2,200afs.

He said that the US dollar currency hike against Afghani was the reason behind increased prices of the products.

Haji Mir HussianSadaqat, a moneychanger at the Money Exchange Service in Sara-i-Shahzada, said one US dollar was accounted for 78.30afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 544afs against last week’s 78.10afs and 543afs.

Other food items prices remain steady.

Hamayon said that a tin of 16 liter of Khurshid ghee cost 1,120afs, a kilogram of Indonesian green tea cost 280afs and the same amount of African black tea 300afs -- same prices as last week’s.

Ahmad Samim, who owns a grocery store in Taimani area of Kabul, sold a 50-kg sack of Kazakhstani flour for 1,480afs, a 49-kg bag of sugar for 2,000afs, 24-kg of Pakistani rice 2,500afs a 16-litre tin of ghee for 1,150afs, one-kg of Indonesian green tea for 300afs and the same amount of black African tea for 350afs—higher than wholesale rates.

Fuel rates also remain unchanged.

Abdul Hadi, a worker at Wazirabad Fuel Station in Kabul, said that a liter of petrol cost 52afs and the same quantity of diesel 49afs, no changes have recorded in fuel rates.

Ahmad Javid, a liquefied gas seller in Taimani area, said the price of one kilogram of the commodity was 70afs.

Haji Fawad Ahmad Salehzada, a jeweler in Timor Shahee area of Kabul, said that the price of one gram of Arabian gold was 2,600afs and the same quantity of Russian variety 2,050afs.

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