ISLAMABAD: The prices of various food items went down considerably during the week ending on August 5, as compared to the previous week, the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Friday revealed.
According to the data, the prices of tomatoes witnessed decrease of 18 per cent whereas banana prices declined by 8.13 per cent on Week-on-Week basis (WoW).
Likewise the prices of chicken and eggs decreased by 3.86 per cent and 3.53 per cent respectively. The prices of Moong pulse, onions, potatoes and Mash pulse also went down by 2.11 per cent, 1.37 per cent, 0.37 per cent and 0.24 per cent respectively. Price of rice IRRI went down by 0.16 per cent, wheat flour bag by 0.10 and sugar by 0.05 per cent.
Meanwhile, on Year-on-Year basis the prices of food items that witnessed decrease included potatoes the prices of which declined by 23.42 per cent whereas the price of Moong pulse declined by 20.73 per cent , tomatoes by 4.19 per cent and chicken by 2.13 per cent.
