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Yellow potato costs up to S/9 in retail markets

Yellow potato costs up to S/9 in retail markets

With the support of URPI

Foods such as potatoes in their different varieties register a rise in its price of up to S/2.00 per kilo in the first week of 2023, according to a tour of three retail markets in metropolitan Lima carried out by a team from La República.

In detail, it was possible to register in the markets of Cercado de Lima, Breña and La Victoria that yellow potatoes cost between S/8.00 and S/9.00 per kilo, while the last week of December was between S/6, 00 and S/7.00. The yungay potato was found for up to S/3.80, before it cost S/3.00; The huayro potato is S/7.00 and before its price was between S/6.00 and S/6.50.

The traders pointed out that the price of carrots rose because yesterday there was no income from this product, so there is fear that it will not arrive in the next few days due to the announced protests.

Thus, it was found between S/4.00 and S/5.00 per kilo, when its price the previous week was between S/2.00 and S/2.40. The foods whose prices have remained stable are tomatoes (from S/2.30 to S/2.80) and lettuce (from S/1.00 to S/3.00).

The average price of a kilo of chicken is S/9.62, while on December 27 it cost around S/10.42, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri).

2022 closed with the highest level of inflation in 26 years. Photo: diffusion

It should be noted that inflation closed 2022 at 8.46%, driven mainly by the rise in food and transportation prices, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).

Only in food, inflation was 15.21% at the end of the year and in December it rose 1.73%, with the consumer division registering the highest increase that month.

Prices in three wholesale markets

The papa yungay It costs between S/2.80 and S/3.00 per kilo, while last week it was up to S/1.80; yellow potatoes cost up to S/7.50, before S/5.50.

The kilo of lemon rose from S/2.50 to S/3.50. The merchants indicated that the stock of this product increased by S/20.00.

Source: Larepublica

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