Potatoes fell by 64%, and carrots by 54%

On September 14, at a meeting of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Minister of Trade and Integration Bakhyt Sultanov spoke about the stabilization of prices for socially important food products (NWPT).As it was noted in the report, since the beginning of the year, prices for NWT have increased by 9.7%.

A large share of the price increase is accounted for by vegetables, which accounts for 5.9 percentage points in the overall growth.It was possible to stabilize prices as a result of saturation of the domestic market with domestic vegetables of fresh harvest. Over the past 3 weeks, prices have been reduced by 0.7 percentage points. So, since their peak growth, potatoes have fallen in price by 64%, carrots by 54%, onions by 4%, cabbage by 2%.According to the above statistics, the largest price increase was recorded in the Turkestan region - by 11.4%, in the Kyzylorda region and the city of Nur-Sultan - by 11.0%.

The lowest price growth was established in the Karaganda region - by 8.6%, Almaty - by 8.9% and Almaty region - by 9.2%.