AMMAN —
Food prices in Jordan remain high,
despite an approximately 10 percent drop in the global food price index,
according to Al-Ghad.
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Experts in
agriculture attribute the high prices to
the fact that Jordan had imported food items when the prices were high, so they
will maintain the high cost despite the global price drop.
Global food prices reached record highs in March,
due to the war in Ukraine, but have seen a relative decline over the past eight
months, according to Jamal Albatsh, former assistant secretary-general at the
Ministry of Agriculture.
Last month, the UN extended a deal to export grain
from Ukraine for another 120 days, easing concerns about the disruption of
Black Sea trade.
Prices had already gone up due to the COVID-19
pandemic and the disruption in supply chains it caused, said
Masnat Al-Hiary,
director of socioeconomic research at the National Agricultural Research
Center.
He added that Jordan is a country with a small, open
economy that relies on borrowing and aid to a large degree. Its main export is
the labor it sends across the region and abroad, as well as phosphate, potash,
and agricultural products.
At the COP27 conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh a month ago,
the World Food Program called on world leaders to strengthen vulnerable
communities’ resilience to climate change.
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