Prices of daily kitchen items show upward trend

Upward trend in prices of daily kitchen items was witnessed in the retail market, said a weekly market-survey conducted by Business Recorder here on Sunday. The survey noticed that rates of vegetables, fruits, cooking oil, live chicken/meat, flour, sugar, and grocery items have touched a new peak in the open market. Buyers consistently flayed provincial government and local administration over keeping a complete mum over artificial rates, charged by vendors on various pretexts. Is any authority to keep check on the overpricing by the shopkeepers, say Najma, a housewife while buying vegetables in the local market here? A one kilogramme live chicken was being sold at Rs430 whereas farm eggs remained unchanged in the retail market, according to the survey. Similarly, the survey noted a kilogram of cow meat without bone was available at Rs1350. Mutton beef was being sold from Rs 2500 to Rs 3000 per kg in the open market.