Food Prices Rise 0.3 Percent In Armenia In October

FOOD PRICES RISE 0.3 PERCENT IN ARMENIA IN OCTOBER

YEREVAN, November 1. /ARKA/. Prices for foods in Armenia rose 0.3% in
October 2013, compared with the previous month, mainly due to 0.5-4%
increase in prices for meat and dairy products, confectionery, fishes,
vegetables and potatoes, the National Statistical Service reports.

At vegetables and potatoes market, a year-on-year growth was recorded
at 7.2% in October 2013, and compared with September 2013, they leapt
4% mostly due to increase in prices for beans (6.6%), greenery (11.2%),
eggplants (26.7%), green pepper 33.4%, cucumbers (44%) and tomatoes
(46.1%).

In nine cities, prices for vegetables and potatoes rose 0.9-9.3%,
on average, and in Yerevan a 4.5-percent month-on-month increase was
recorded in October 2013.

Prices at Armenia’s fruit market climbed 9.5% in October 2013, compared
with the same month a year earlier, but slipped 4.1%, compared with
September 2013 thanks to decrease in prices for persimmons (48.8%),
pears 16.6%, pomegranates (11.2%), walnuts (10.2%), grapes (7.8%)
and lemons (4.2%).

Apples were 1.6% cheaper in October 2013 than in September 2013,
and melons were 3.3% cheaper.

Instead, prices for bananas jumped 3.9%, for watermelons 10.1%,
oranges 18.6%, strawberry 26.3%, plums 38.9% and peaches 42.8%.

The average sugar price fell 15.8% in October 2013, compared with
the same month a year before, and slid 1.3%, compared with the
previous month.

Prices for meat products rose 4.4%, compared with October 2012, and
0.5%, compared with September 2013, mainly because of increase in
prices for semi-smoked sausage (0.7%), canned meat (0.7%), chicken and
cooked sausage (1%), smoked sausage (1.2%), sausages (2%), basturma
(dried meat) and chicken legs (2.7%). Mutton, pork and beef prices
dropped 3.1%, 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.

Prices for dairy products rose 11.9% in October 2013, compared with
the same month a year before, and 0.5%, compared with September 2013.

Fishes and fish products in October 2013 became 6.3% more expensive
than they were in October 2012 and 1.5% more expensive than in
September 2013.

Egg prices has climbed 33.5% since October 2012, but slid 1.2%,
compared with September 2013. -0—-

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