Monitoring of prices for socially significant products

The head of the project office of «Katonqaragai – Adaldyq alany» D. Nurpeisova, with the participation of the deputy akim of Ulken Naryn rural district K. Baubekova, the chief specialist of the Department of entrepreneurship, industry and tourism S. Shishkina, monitored prices for socially important essential goods.
Since the beginning of this year, 7 out of 19 socially significant food products have increased in price by more than 20%.
According to the results of July 2021, the monthly increase in prices for food products was 0.7%, the annual increase was 11%.
Socially significant food products, including 19 items, according to monitoring in the period from July 27 to August 3, 2021, increased in price by 0.1% from the beginning of the month and immediately by 10.3% from the beginning of the year.
Currently, the average prices for food products are:
- carrots-276 tenge;
- potatoes-180 tenge;
- onion-167 tenge;
- cabbage -204 tenge;
- wheat flour (first grade) - 157 tenge;
- white sugar (sand) - 374 tenge, etc.
During the monitoring, explanatory work was carried out with the owners of retail facilities to prevent the facts of unjustified price increases for socially significant food products.