Mazar-e-Sharif (BNA) Shopkeepers and food store officials in Mazar-e-Sharif report a decline in consumption compared to the past, but people say foodstuff prices not changing.
According to BNA correspondent from Mazar-e-Sharif, After the US blockade of Afghanistan and the rise in the value of the dollar, the impact on food prices in the country and the price of food has doubled, but recently the value of the US dollar has fallen. Created to reduce food prices in the country and the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Sayed Abrar, who owns a grocery store, told BNA that food Prices has decreased compared to the past, but the price of goods entering the country through customs has not changed because the Afghan customs is too high.
According to him, the price of a 50-kg bag of flour used to be 2,200 afghanis, but now it has dropped to 1,900 afghanis.
Mohammad Hussein, a shopkeeper, also announced a reduction in food consumption, saying that consumption in Mazar-e-Sharif would reach the dollar if it fell to the dollar against the Afghan currency, and if the Afghan currency depreciated against the dollar.
But the citizens of Mazar-e-Sharif are complaining about the high price of foodstuffs, saying that there has been a new change in the price of raw materials and that food prices are as high as ever.
Mohammad Anwar resident of Chamtal district, said the price of the dollar had fallen but there had been little change in foodstuff prices.
Meanwhile, Shir Mohammad Sofi zada, advisor to the Balkh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, acknowledged the problems facing traders and wholesalers of foodstuffs in the north. The influx of food and its distribution by global and UN donors.
Bakhtar News Agency
