High prices have prevailed for several months in the family basket of the capital of Valle del Cauca.
Basic products such as potatoes, meat, rice, grains, fruits and others have been under the movement of high values.
Now there is a drop in costs, although that depends on the movement of cargo and other factors such as the weather.
(Read in context: The family basket in Cali is still ‘through the roof’)
From the sectors that transport, distribute or market, higher costs have been argued in the production and distribution of food.
ANDhe executive president of the National Federation of Merchants (Fenalco), in Valle del Cauca, Octavio Quintero, notes that 70 percent of the food that makes up the family basket in Valle del Cauca is imported, especially from other departments.
There is also food and supplies that arrive from other countries.For the price and market information coordinator of the Valle del Cauca Supply Center (Cavasa), Oliver Medina, the one in Cali is the highest family basket in recent years.
Merchant Edgar López, spokesperson at Santa Elena gallery
Edgar López, spokesman for the merchants in the Santa Elena gallery, there is a respite in the price of some of the basic foods.
As an example, on Saturday, market day, a product such as brown potatoes lowered its price because the 50-kilo package was 170,000 pesos, but it is available for 130,000.
Thus, tomato, banana and watermelon, among others, have lowered their price in the main food pantry of Caleños, which is the Santa Elena market square.
López points out that it is important to take into account that there are serious risks in food security, products such as beef and potatoes have increased their price above the adjustment in the minimum wage for 2022.
With great concern I see how the prices of the family basket are rising in Cali, the argument of the man from the store: “with the closure of the tunnel of the line, the consumption of gasoline and freight increased, will it be only Cali? The argument will be valid or usury.
— Father Orphan Senate #19 Citizen Force (@PadreHuerfano1) January 21, 2021
The merchant invited “the citizens of Cali to buy the Santa Elena gallery in the largest food pantry, associating with their neighbors, friends and family so that they can make their purchases in bulk and thus obtain a better price, with this you help the merchant that has seen its sales reduced by 30 percent due to the loss in the purchasing power of the people of Cali and the peasant who produces what we eat”.
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