Covid-19: Food prices soar in Quelimane – “slight price rise”, INAE delegate says

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Covid-19: Food prices soar in Quelimane – “slight price rise”, INAE delegate says

2:36 CAT | 31 Mar 2020

Photo: O País

On the heels of the new coronavirus pandemic, the prices of basic products have begun to increase, especially in the main market in the city of Quelimane, O País reports.

The price of a bag of imported reno potatoes, which used to cost 500 meticais, has gone up 50 meticais. A 10-kilo bag of onions, previously 400 meticais, now costs 700 meticais. And a kilo of garlic, which varied between 300 to 350 meticais, is now 500 to 600 meticais.

Traders Rosa Mines and Carlos Pedro said that Maputo, the main place for purchasing produce, was experiencing a rise in prices, and this was causing rising prices in Quelimane.

“The products that arrive in Maputo from South Africa are more expensive, and we have no alternative but to pass that on,” they explained.

Vera Godinho National Inspection of Economic Activities (INAE) delegate in Zambézia province, was meanwhile downplaying the prices rises, speaking only of slight [price] increases and minor product scarcity – of, for example, garlic, potatoes and onions. She did however say that the INAE would be strengthening monitoring for possible price speculation.

By Jorge Marcos

Source: O País