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Deliveries of potatoes today fell by 39%. | Font: Andean

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Today, Friday, January 20, the receipt of products in Large Wholesale Market of Lima he registered a fall again due to the roadblocks set up by the demonstrations.

According to data compiled by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), supply this morning was 25% lower than a typical Friday. Only 5,150 tons were received compared to 6,864 tons registered last week.

Even in the case of potatoes, a 39.7% drop in supply is reported, with 1,317 tons of tubers entering Metropolitan Lima.

This lower income food This resulted in price increases for half of the 26 main items sold at Lima’s Big Wholesale Market.

Peas showed the biggest increase, having risen in price by 3 S/, since yesterday they cost 8.63 S/, and now they are sold at 11.63 S/kg.

Significant cost increase lemon, which rose by S/1.85 per kilogram. Yesterday a lemon was selling for SGD 3.59 and today it can be found at wholesalers for SGD 5.43 per kilo.

To a lesser extent, the prices of commodities such as green beans, yellow potatoes, Peruvian potatoes, macre squash and kanchan potatoes also increased. These products have risen in price by at least 0.30 S/kg in one day.

With the increase in wholesalers at the retail level, there is also an increase in prices due to a decrease in the supply of various goods.

“Goods do not come to the center. Beans, broad beans, kidney beans, lima beans also increased in price, by $2 per kilo,” one of the traders told RPP Noticias.

For example, merchants indicate that a kilogram of green beans is now offered at S/8, while it is being sold at S/6.

Despite this, the head of Midagri, Nelli Paredes, assured this morning that vegetable prices in the markets remain stable.

“Mobilization yesterday and today has created a lot of uncertainty for the population of Lima, but now that we are taking a tour of the market, we see that prices are holding,” he commented.

The Minister noted that the arrival of goods at the Santa Anita Wholesale Market is normal and called merchants do not speculate on prices.

Source: RPP

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