Food prices stay steady in Kabul markets

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of daily-use items like sugar, four, cooking oil and gas stayed stable during the outgoing week in Kabul, but the afghani depreciated against the US dollar, market sources said Saturday.

Afghani vs dollar

Haji Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 71afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees consumed 250afs.

Last week, one US dollar was accounted for 70.80afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 250afs.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the rate of a 49-kilogram sack of Indian sugar remained unchanged at 2,900afs and the prices of a 49-kilogram sack of Kazakhstani flour and 16 liters tin of Malaysian cooking oil stayed stable at 1,500afs and 1,400afs respectively.

Also a 24-kilogarm bag of Pakistani rice was sold for 2,600afs, a kilogram of African black tea for 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea for 350afs, the same rates as last week’s.

Hamid Sufizada, a retailer at Dehna-i-Bagh Market, put the retail price of a 49-kilogram bag of Kazakh flour at 1,550afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,950afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil accounted for 1,450afs, one kilogram of black tea for 400afs and the same quantity of green tea for 450afs, he added.

Fuel prices

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok Afghan News the prices of one litre of petrol and diesel stayed steady at 60afs and 58afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kolola Pushta neighborhood, sold a kilo of the commodity for 46afs.

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweler in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold stayed stable at 4,350afs and the same amount of the Russian variety 3,450afs.

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