The Consumer Rights Protection Association reported a 167 percent increase in food prices.
The National Association for the Protection of Consumer Rights announced in a report on the status of "prices of essential goods" over the past year that the highest price increase was in the food category, at "167 percent."
According to the report of the Monitoring and Surveillance Working Group, published on May 12, the prices of 52 basic and frequently consumed goods for Iranian households and available in the Iranian market were examined in 9 general groups during the twelve-month period ending on April 19 of this year, which showed that the prices of some food items increased by up to 167 percent.
In a report published last month by the National Association for the Protection of Consumer Rights, the prices of Tarom rice, Hashemi rice, chickpeas, potatoes, bottled drinking water, and tomato paste have experienced a price increase of more than 100 percent compared to the previous year.
According to the association's Monday report, the price of the "protein products" group, including chicken, eggs, mutton and beef, and live mutton and beef, increased by 53 percent at the end of April this year compared to the same period last year.
The Statistical Center of Iran, a government agency, announced in its latest official report that the point-by-point inflation rate (index change compared to the same period of the previous year) for the month of Farvardin was 43.4 percent in the major group of "food, beverages, and tobacco" and 31.3 percent in the group of "non-food goods and services."
The National Consumer Protection Association also stated that over the past year, "eggs have been the most expensive protein product," noting that the price of sugar has "almost doubled" over the same period.
On the other hand, Abdi Eftekhari, secretary of the Iranian Legumes Association, told ILNA news agency on Monday, May 12, that last year the average price of one kilogram of legumes in Iran was 50,000 to 75,000 tomans, and that in some of these products, "we witnessed a price increase of 70 to 120 percent."
Another part of the National Consumer Rights Protection Association report states that the "building materials group" has witnessed a 46% increase in the price of gray cement, 24% in rebar, 34% in white plaster, and 15% in iron beams and black sheets over the past year.
This is despite the fact that Ebrahim Raisi and his cabinet members have repeatedly promised, since the presidential election campaign in Khordad 1400, to "change the status quo for the benefit of the people," "inflation reaching single digits," and "eliminating absolute poverty."
Source: Voice of America
