The Iftar table succumbed to price hikes

Turkey has entered the most expensive month of Ramadan in history today, after consecutive price increases. While the price of red meat has increased by 188% since March 2022, the price increase of dried legume products has exceeded 300%. CHP Vice President and Malatya MP Veli Ağbaba also calculated the annual increase in the price of basic commodities at the iftar tables. Ağbaba said, “The price increases in the markets continue unabated, let alone that the government has constantly broken the back of inflation,” he said, “As prices rise, the iftar table of low-income families succumbs to price increases on iftar”. table this year.”

Veli Agbaba

Ağbaba stated that the price of 1 kilogram of meat, which was listed at TL 97.35 in the commodity basket of the Turkish Statistical Institute of Turkey (TUIK), increased to TL 281 in March this year, adding: “The cost of putting a bowl of meat on the iftar table increased by 188% compared to last year.The price of chicken meat increased by at least 82.93 percent,” he said.

215 PERCENT INCREASE IN RICE

Stating that the price of a kilogram of bulgur wheat has increased by 327% since March last year, Ağbaba said that there was an increase of 215% in a kilogram of rice, 176% in a kilogram of chickpeas and 166% in a kilogram. of dry beans. Ağbaba noted that the cost of rice pilaf on the iftar table has increased by 215 percent this year.

Onion stood at 20 TL

Following price increases in Turkey in recent years, there has been a noticeable change in the price of onions. In March 2022, a kilo of onion was put up for sale at 3.50 TL. The Union of Chambers of Agriculture of Turkey, in the statement that evaluated last year’s price changes, stated that onion is the ‘champion of the rise’. When we got to January of this year, the price of a kilo of dry onion exceeded 13 TL. In the month of Ramadan, the price of a kilo of onion was 20 TL.