The wholesale prices of most food and foodstuffs, including vegetables and fruits at Binh Dien and Thu Duc markets, are stable. Particularly in traditional markets, the prices of vegetables and fruits still remained high. For instance, Da Lat cabbage fetched VND25,000 per kilogram while the posted price was only VND20,000 a kilogram.
Zucchini was sold at VND30,000 a kilogram, up by VND15,000 per kilogram, tomatoes at VND35,000 a kilogram up by VND5,000. Broccoli price increased by VND10,000 to VND30,000 a kilogram while bitter melon and cucumber at the same price of VND30,000, a surge of VND10,000 a kilogram.
Sellers explained that vegetable prices increased not because of the scarcity of supply, but because of increased input costs of gasoline resulting in higher transportation fees and sales costs during the pandemic. Noticeably, some places in District 8, District 10, and District 11, sales at traditional markets decreased by 20 percent and 30 percent due to more blocked areas.
[ VND100 = € 0,0037 ]
Source: sggpnews.org.vn
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