Islamabad January 7 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 05th January, 2023 recorded an increase of 1.09 percent.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Chicken (16.09 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (5.16 percent), Wheat Flour (4.87 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (3.45 percent), Bananas (2.97 percent), Onions (2.65 percent), Bread (1.24 percent), Salt Powdered (1.07 percent) and Pulse Moong (1.02 percent).
Chicken farm boiler is being sold at PKR 383.47 per kg in the local market when compared with PKR 210.12 a year ago, according to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. While Onion prices has moved up PKR 183 per kg or 501.23 percent in a year to PKR 220.41 per kg.
On the other hand major decrease is observed in the prices of Potatoes (4.61 percent), Eggs (1.31 percent), Tomatoes (1.17 percent), LPG (0.85 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (0.71 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (0.32 percent), Sugar (0.24 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (0.11 percent) and Pulse Masoor (0.05 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 23 (45.10 percent) items increased, 09 (17.65 percent) items decreased and 19 (37.25 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 30.60 percent, Onions (501.23 percent), Chicken (82.50 percent), Tea Lipton (65.41 percent), Diesel (60.63 percent), Eggs (50.51 percent), Salt Powdered (49.50 percent), Petrol (48.21 percent), Pulse Moong (46.99 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (46.17 percent), Bananas (45.64 percent), Wheat Flour (45.35 percent) and Rice Irri-6/9 (43.11 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Chillies Powdered (22.98 percent), Electricity for Q1 (13.96 percent) and Gur (1.11 percent).
