Hyderabad: The Taliban takeover ripple in Afghanistan is felt in Begum Bazar – which is believed to be the second largest grain market in Asia.
Driven by dry fruits of supply from Afghanistan, the market is left bleeding with political chaos that stops shipping.
Results: escalation of 40% to 50% to 50% at the cost of these products.
In some cases, prices even multiply.
Before the crisis, around 500 to 700 tons of various fruits and dry spices including pistachios, ara (anjeer), green raisins, black raisins, apricots, almonds and shah jeera (cumin seeds) were reduced in the local market of Hyderabad every month.
It traveled here from Afghanistan through Pakistan and Delhi.
But while the KG image, for example, is available for RS 650 to July, now costs anywhere between Rs 900 and Rs 1,400 A Kg.
Apricot (black) has also seen leaps in rates – from Rs 300 per kg to rs 500 to 700 per kg.
“This is because the dried fruit business has been sick for the past month.
With a damaged supply chain, the price of nuts has penetrated the roof,” said Mukesh Sankla, a leading dried fruit trader in Begum Bazar.
Other wholesalers, Raj Kumar, from ‘Kashmir House’, who have been in business since the pre-independence recognize “inventory disorders”, especially during the last 10-15 days claiming that more than 85% of the city of dry fruit supply came from Afghanistan, other traders From Banjara Hills said how the movement of cargo through the transit route in Pakistan has greatly affected the business that has suffered a Covid-19 punch and slowly recovered after half a year.
slowly.
Price increases have come haunting consumers who feel that dry fruits are quickly unreachable.
The price increase came to haunt consumers who felt that dried fruits quickly became no infected.
“Some health experts, posting a pandemic, it has been suggested that patients consume beans such as almonds and pistachios to increase their immunity.
But if prices continue to soar like this, it is impossible to buy it,” said G Rajendra Kumar, a patient restored covid- 19.
To increase their sales, many vendors have begun to sell dry fruits through mobile van now.
They can be found driving through housing colonies such as Kukatpally, Ameerpet, S Nagar, Secunderabad, L B Nagar, among others.
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