Business Recorder
PESHAWAR: Prices of essential food commodities, including live chicken/meat, vegetable, flour, except cooking oil/ghee, sugar, milk powder and others remained high in the retail market. On Sunday, a weekly market survey carried out by Business Recorder revealed that the upward trend in prices of some items witnessed while others also sold on remained sky-high in the open market. Is there any authority to keep a check on rising prices, Jamal Khan told this scribe while buying tomatoes in an old vegetable market in the city. He said the inflation had broken the backbone of ordinary citizens and shopkeepers squeezing on pretext of petroleum price-hikes and other. Traders and dealers in the provincial metropolitan here took a stance that prices are consistently rising due to hike in diesel and petrol prices, stating that the increase in petroleum prices in last week would further push the rates of essential food items up. Rs20 per kilogramme increase has witnessed in prices of live chicken/meat, pushing the rate up at Rs420 per kilogramme from Rs400 per kilogramme in the previous week as compared to preceding week, the survey noted. A dozen of farm eggs were available at Rs260 and Rs240 in the open market, it added. Prices of cow and buffalo as well as mutton beef remained high in the open market. A one kilogram cow meat without bone is being sold at Rs1350 against the official rates of Rs900 per kilogramme announced by local authorities concerned, the survey said. The price of mutton beef was being sold from Rs 2800 to Rs 3000 per kg in the open market. Prices of cooking oil and ghee also remained unchanged in the open market. LPG prices dropped in the open market, which is available at Rs460 per kilo against the Rs490 per kilo, showing decrease Rs30 per kilo in the open market. Similarly, they said the tandoorwala also charged double the price of low-weight roti despite the decrease in the flour prices. Tomatoes were sold at Rs80-100 per kilogramme while onion was being sold at Rs100 against the price Rs70 per kg whereas ginger was available at Rs 600 and garlic was at Rs300-400/kg in the retail market, the survey added. Green chilli was being sold at Rs80 per kg whereas lemon was being sold at Rs100 per kilogramme against the price of 100 per kilogramme in the retail market. Peas was being sold at Rs150 per kg, capsicum at Rs120 per kilogramme, lady finger at Rs 200-300 per kilogramme, Arvi at Rs 150-200 per kilogramme, turnip at Rs 100 per kilogramme, Eggplant (bringle) at Rs 100 per kilogramme, Zucchini (tori) at Rs 120-150 per kilogramme, Tenda Rs 100 per kilogramme, cabbage at Rs 120 per kilogramme, red-coloured potatoes available at Rs 70 per kilogramme while white-coloured potatoes are sold at Rs 50 per kilogramme in the retail market. A one kilogramme of sugar dropped as it was available at Rs150 against the price of Rs 160 per kilogramme, the survey said. Similarly, flour prices remained stable as a 20-kg bag was being sold at Rs2700 against the price of 2900-3000. However, the price of an 80-kg bag remained unchanged as available at Rs 12,500 and Rs13000 per sac in the wholesale market, the survey said. On the other hand, Flour millers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa threatened to launch a protest against the ‘unconstitutional’ ban on transportation of wheat from Punjab. Millers said the restriction was a sheer violation of article 151 of the constitution and expressed fear that a severe wheat flour crisis will hit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, if the ban wasn’t lifted immediately. Prices of pulses remained unchanged in the retail market, according to the survey. Good quality rice (sela) was available at Rs 360 per kilogramme, while low quality rice was available at Rs 300-320 per kilogramme, while toota rice was available at Rs 200-220 per kilogramme. Similarly, the survey furthermore said dal mash was available at Rs 480, dal masoor at Rs 320 per kilogramme, dal chilka (black) at Rs 320 per kilogramme, dal chilka (green) at Rs 260 per kilogramme, moonge at Rs 400 per kilogramme, dhoti dal at Rs 400 per kilogramme, dal Channa at Rs 450 per kilogramme, red bean at Rs 440 per kilogramme, Gram flour (baisen) at Rs 420 per kilogramme against Rs 280 per kilogramme, big-size white Channa at Rs 380 per kilogramme, small-size white Channa from Rs 360 per kilogramme. Apple was available at Rs 400-500 per kilogramme, banana at Rs150-200 per dozen, Guava at Rs200 per kilogramme, melon at Rs150 per kilo, strawberry at Rs250-300 per kilo, orange was available at Rs 300 per dozen, grapes at Rs500-600 per kilo. Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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