Sugar, cooking oil, tea prices down in Kabul markets

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of sugar, cooking oil, black tea declined while rice, gold, fuel and liquid gas surged this weekend in Kabul markets.

A worker of Ahmadyar Group Fuel Station told Pajhwok Afghan News the price of one liter of petrol was 81afs as last week.

Mohammad Sharif, a gas seller in Kulula Pushta area of Kabul, the price of one kilogram of liquid gas was increased from 82afs to 88afs.

The prices of cooking oil, sugar, and black tea decreased, but rice surged.

Zamarai Safi, head of Kabul Traders Union, said the price of 24.5 kilograms of Pakistani rice increased from 2600afs to 2800afs.

He added, the price of 16 liters of Malaysian cooking oil decreased from 2,800 to 2,750afs, 49 kilograms of Indian sugar from 2,300afs to 3,150afs and one-kilogram black African team from 450afs to 420afs.

Meanwhile, today as last week, the price of 49kilograms of Kazakhi flour is 2,450afs and one kilogram of Indonesian green tea is 400afs.

Hamid Sufizadah, a retailer in Kabul, said that today the price of 49 kilograms of Kazakhstani flour was 2,500afs, 24kg of Pakistani rice 2,850afs, and the price of 49kgof Indian sugar was 3,200afs, a tin of 16 liters of cooking oil 2,800afs. A kilogram of Indonesian green tea costs 450afs and the same quantity of African black tea 570afs, he said.

Gold price increased.

Mohammad Javid, a jeweler in Lycee Maryam area of Kabul the price of one gram of Arabic gold increased from 4,700afs to 4,750afs and the same quantity of Russian variety increased from 3,700afs to 3,850afs.

Haji Hussain, owner of Sadaqat money exchanging shop in Sara-i-Shahzad, told Pajhwok that today as last week one US dollar is accounted for 104afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 550afs.

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