RAWALPINDI:
After the start of the new year, prices of food items including vegetables, fruits, meat and bakery products witnessed an uncontrolled rise in Rawalpindi.
Bakeries across the city increased the prices of rolls, rusks, biscuits and bread by 20 to 30 percent and began charging new rates.
Chicken is sold at Rs 700 per kg, eggs at Rs 350 per dozen, mutton at Rs 2,400 per kg, beef at Rs 1,500 per kg, ghee and cooking oil at Rs 500 to 510 per litre, sugar at Rs 190 to 200 per kg, flour at Rs 160 to 170 per kg, tea at Rs 2,500 per kg. 2,850 Rs per kg, white chickpeas at 430 Rs per kg, gram of lentils at 360 Rs per kg and lentil puree at 550 Rs per kg.
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The price of rice is Rs 400 per kg, milk is Rs 220 per liter, yogurt is Rs 240 per kg, new potatoes are Rs 50 per kg, old potatoes are Rs 100 to 120 per kg, onions are Rs 100 per kg, okra is Rs 350 per kg, ginger is Rs 450 per kg, garlic is Rs 350 per kg, peas of Rs 150 per kg, carrots. at Rs90 per kg, radish at Rs50 per kg, green chillies at Rs120 per kg, bitter gourd at Rs110 per kg and round gourd at Rs120 per kg.
Apples sell for between Rs 200 and 400 per kg, pomegranates between Rs 500 and 700 per kg, grapes between Rs 600 and 700 per kg, papaya between Rs 300 and 250 per dozen, bananas between Rs 150 and 200 per dozen and guava between Rs 200 and 200 per kg.
