The return of commercial traffic to the markets of Mosul again


One of Mosul markets

By Rudao 3 hours ago
12/5/2017



Roudao - Mosul

The commercial movement returned to the city of Mosul again, after the restoration of large parts of the organization of the "Islamic State", and in comparison with the Kurdistan Region and other Iraqi provinces, the prices of food, especially vegetables in the markets of Mosul - which imports from Erbil - less than the likes.

While the price of one kilo of red meat in Mosul is 7 thousand dinars, while the price in Erbil between 12 to 15 thousand dinars, and the price of a kilo of tomatoes in Mosul, 500 dinars at a time when the price more than double in Erbil.

The sellers assert that they take the economic and living conditions of the people and their purchasing power into account, stressing that they are still making profits despite the ascendancy of the prices of their goods.

Mosul markets are overcrowded, although most foodstuffs, especially vegetables and fruits, are imported from Erbil, but are sold half of what is sold there.

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture in the Kurdistan Region, the local consumption of vegetables in the region of 746 thousand tons and more than 310 thousand tons of fruit, while the domestic production last year 187 thousand tons of vegetables and 54 thousand tons of fruit, while the quantity imported from Vegetables 478 thousand tons and 334 thousand tons of fruits.

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