site.btaFood Price Index Declines Further in a Week, Albeit Marginally
The Food Wholesale Market Price Index in Bulgaria continued to decline, albeit marginally, in the outgoing week - by 0.986% to 2,229 points. The index level at the beginning of the year was 2.316 points. It then reached its spring high of 2.480 points in the first third of March.
The baseline of 1.000 points was set in 2005.
All product prices are per 1 kg unless otherwise specified. All prices are given in BGN.
| Product | Old price | New price | % change |
| Hothouse tomatoes | 3.12 | 2.93 | -6.1% |
| Hothouse cucumbers | 3.08 | 2.40 | -22.1% |
| Potatoes | 1.51 | 1.41 | -6.6% |
| Carrots | 2.18 | 2.04 | -6.4% |
| Cabbage | 1.10 | 1.00 | -9.1% |
| Lettuce (a piece) | 1.44 | 1.48 | 2.8% |
| Strawberries | 4.10 | 3.88 | -5.4% |
| Imported apples | 1.79 | 1.82 | 1.7% |
| Lemons | 2.38 | 2.52 | 5.9% |
| Bananas | 2.94 | 2.86 | -2.7% |
| Cherries | 5.51 | 4.70 | -14.7% |
| White brined cheese from cow's milk | 11.17 | 11.04 | -1.2% |
| Vitosha yellow kashkaval cheese | 17.37 | 17.26 | -0.6% |
| Chicken | 6.53 | 6.63 | 1.5% |
| Size M eggs (a piece) | 0.34 | 0.33 | -2.9% |
| Rice | 3.20 | 3.14 | -1.9% |
| Lentils | 4.21 | 4.17 | -1.0% |
| Haricot beans | 4.13 | 4.04 | -2.2% |
| Grade 500 flour | 1.38 | 1.36 | -1.4% |
| Sunflower oil (per litre) | 3.37 | 3.19 | -5.3% |
| Butter (per 125 g) | 2.61 | 2.39 | -8.4% |
| Sugar | 2.42 | 2.39 | -1.2% |
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