Rising food prices in Salah al-Din
06/08/2011
Tikrit, Abdul Salam Mohammed
Citizens expressed in Salahuddin province, their displeasure by rising food prices with the holy month of Ramadan.
The citizenship of the morning of Mahmoud Balad »Sabah»: The week witnessed a rise in the prices of fruits and vegetables, and material in the trip the month of Ramadan is striking, because the prices have doubled, some tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and eggplant.
As indicated Karima Shaker of the judiciary itself to the price of red meat and white rose is the other, as the price per kilogram of lamb 17 000 dinars, and beef 14 000 dinars, the price of a dish eggs to five thousand dinars after it was 3500 dinars.
For his part, Issa Mahmoud from the city of Tikrit that the prices of pulses rose is the other as the price per kilogram of material chickpeas 2,500 dinars after it was 1250 dinars as well as for the subjects of lentils and beans, which have seen multiples rise as well, calling on government agencies and regulators to take measures to reduce of this phenomenon.
Yasser Hassan dealer in food finds that rising food prices in such events is normal and happens every year according to supply and demand, adding that the turnout of citizens to purchase and the imposition of taxes on imported materials contributes to an increase in prices.
For his part, called Branch Company for Foodstuff Trading in salads, all agents of the ration to speed up the receipt of food rations and distribution among the citizens.
The Chairman of the Commission services in the provincial council Fayek go »Sabah»: that the company's warehouses of large quantities of food sufficient for one month after Ramadan, calling on agents of food in areas of the province all to go to receive their shares, stressing that the employees of the company continue processing agents in the ration card items.
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