39 pita breads are missing from the citizens’ table

Base As price increases on food products continue unabated, citizens prepare for Ramadan at this table. Although the minimum wage has increased 100 percent in one year, the decline in purchasing power continues to impoverish people. The low-income citizen, who buys dates with a kilogram of up to 300 lire with cereals, will fall short on his table this year with 39 asks. Whereas 805 pita breads were bought with minimum wage in 2022, the number of pita breads that can be bought this year has decreased to 766. Ramadan pita prices in Istanbul have increased by 83 percent in the last year and 204 percent in the last two years. 300 grams of Ramadan pita, of which 365 grams sold for 4 lira in 2021, will sell for 10 lira this year. Last year, the selling price of 330 grams of pita in Istanbul was 6 TL. Despite the rises in the price of pita and the high increase in the minimum wage, the amount of pita that can be bought with the minimum wage has not changed much in recent years. However, pide prices, whose weight has been reduced, have actually risen more than it seems. According to Euronews’ calculation of the number of pitas that can be bought with the average minimum wage each year, assuming that the pita is 333 grams each year, 577 pieces of Ramadan pita were bought with the minimum wage in 2012, while that this amount was reduced to 473. in 2013. The amount, which increased to 760 pitas in 2016, decreased to 632 in 2017.

FOLDED PITA FLOUR

In 2020 the highest level of the last 11 years was seen with 814 pitas that could be bought. In 2022, 805 pieces of Ramadan pide were purchased with a monthly net minimum wage, while this amount increased to 766 pieces in 2023. The president of the Federation of Bakers, Halil İbrahim Balcı, stated that while the price of flour for pita bread was 265 lira last year, this year it is around 550-600 lira.

Weight loss, price increase

2012 The price for 400 grams of pita was 1.5 TL. The price of pita bread did not change in 2013, but pitas were reduced to 300 grams. While there was no increase in the pita in 2018, a 300-gram pita was reduced to 275 grams. The pita, which was 330 grams in 2022, became 300 grams this year. While the price of a kilogram of pita was 11 TL in 2021, it increased to 18.2 TL in 2022. In Istanbul, the price of a kilogram of pita bread increased to 33.3 lira in 2023.