Winter brings spike in dry fruit rates
A shopkeeper sells dry fruits in Islamabad. PHOTO: APP
ISLAMABAD: Change of continue in sovereign collateral has augmenting direct of dry fruits, that has also resulted in arise in their prices.
Be it almonds, pistachios, walnuts, dates, cashew nuts, peanuts, coconuts or dusty apricots and figs, rates of a favourite winter taste have taken flight.
With sky-rocketing prices, dry fruits have many left out of strech of many people.
Prices of dry fruits in Islamabad are high as compared to markets located in a areas where dry fruit is accessible in abundance.
On tip of a cost draft in Islamabad is a cost of hunger nuts locally famous as chilghoza. The tiny consternation is offered for Rs4,000 per kg approximately, yet in a areas where it is grown, it is sole during half cost of Rs2,000 per kg.
The prices of other dry fruits like almond, cashew nut, pistachio, and walnuts have risen neatly along with a analogous boost in demand.
In plain mathematics, a rates in marketplace of start are doubled when a commodity reaches a capital. Prices of dry fruits are double in a sovereign capital. Almonds in shells from Iran or Afghanistan are bought during Rs500 per kg in Quetta dry fruits marketplace and shipped northward to sell during Rs1,000 per kg in Islamabad.
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Similarly, a cost of cashews in Quetta is Rs320 per kg yet in sovereign collateral these are sole during Rs670 per kg. Whole walnuts, yet grown in contentment in a country, are bought during Rs450 in Gilgit-Baltistan than ecstatic southward to Islamabad where a tough bulb to moment fetches some-more than Rs700/kg.
While unsalted pistachio in shells sells for about Rs800 in indiscriminate markets of other tools of a country, it costs Rs1,100 in a collateral city. The cost of favourite winter-chew serve ticks adult with packing. Dry fruit prices are even aloft during superstores where these sell them in appealing packaging.
Traders censure brief reserve from Afghanistan and Iran from where imports are slowed down in arrivals by bootleg channels and bootlegging in a some 6 month after limit checks.
It is ordinarily celebrated in a multitude that during winter, people benefaction dry fruits to their guest as hospitality. In a cold weather, a series of vendors offered dry fruits has also augmenting as they can be seen along each roadside nearby train stands and in markets.
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However, with a augmenting demand, a prices of dry fruits have also augmenting plural and shopping them has turn usually a dream for a low income people.
The many favourite and renouned dry fruit so stays a peanut. Vendors portion prohibited peanuts roasted in silt are a attract of a winter in a city. Late night gatherings of friends and family are not finish but peanuts. Due to Medical experts contend these dry fruits enclose good volume of energy.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 29th, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1544101/1-winter-brings-spike-dry-fruit-rates/