Sugar, gold rates down, cooking oil up in Kabul — Pajhwok

KABUL (Pajhwok): Sugar and gold prices decreased while the price of cooking oil surged in Kabul during the outgoing week, market sources said on Saturday. Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49kg bag of Indian sugar fell from 2,650 afs to 2,600 afs. Meanwhile, the price of 16 litres of Malaysian cooking oil increased from 1,950 afs to 2,000 afs. He said prices of other essential food items remained unchanged, with a 49kg bag of Kazakh flour selling for 1,600 afs, a 24kg bag of Indian rice for 2,500 afs, one kilogramme of African black tea for 380 afs and one kilogramme of Indonesian green tea for 350 afs. Safi noted that retail prices differed slightly from wholesale prices in some cases, while the difference was more significant for some other products. Hamid Sufizada, a retailer in Dahan-i-Bagh market, put the retail price of a 49kg bag of Kazakh flour at 1,650 afs, a 24kg bag of Indian rice at 2,550 afs and a 49kg bag of Indian sugar at 2,550 afs. A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil sold for 2,050 afs, while one kilogramme of black tea cost 430 afs and the same quantity of green tea cost 400 afs. Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in the Timor Shahi area, said the price…