AMMAN — The Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Supply said the prices of some
vegetables have gone down after the increase in the quantities supplied to the
market; the prices of others have stayed unchanged.
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Ministry spokesperson Yanal Barmawi told
Jordan News
that official ministry figures show that the prices of six items, including
potatoes, lemons, onions, cauliflower, and green peppers, are unchanged, but
“the prices of four other items, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchinis, carrots,
dropped by 6 to 16 percent.
The quantities of vegetables and fruits supplied to
the central market increased, “reaching about 3,000 tons on Saturday”, said
Barmawi.
The higher prices of some vegetables, witnessed
recently, was due to lower supplies, said Barmawi, “and that resulted from the
frost that affected the crops and reduced the quantity of produce”.
He indicated that the prices will remain within
their limits as long as there is no shortage in the quantities supplied.
Citizens have complained about the prices of many
types of vegetables, which are, many say, still rising, and stress the need to
tighten “government control” over the pricing of many items, which now is being
dictated by the traders who exaggerate.
Citizen Jamal Jihad told
Jordan News that prices of
vegetables and fruit vary from one place to another, and that the prices of
some kinds are still “high, and beyond us”.
He added that the government should monitor the
markets that raise produce prices “twice, and even more. I do not know how it
works that sometimes I buy tomatoes for 10 piaster, and sometimes the price
reaches 500 fils or more per kilogram. One should bear in mind that some needy
families only eat vegetables because they cannot afford to buy meat, for
example”.
In a previous interview with
Jordan News, the head
of the Jordan Valley Farmers Union, Adnan Khaddam, had said that the government
has to help the agricultural sector, since the farmers are going through hard
times, at all levels, and warned that another rise in the prices of vegetables
and fruits could be expected “if the situation of farmers remains as it is.”
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