site.btaFood Price Index Up by Nearly 1% First Week of August
The market price index (MPI), which reflects wholesale food prices, increased by 0.995% in the first week of August, reaching 2.137 points, according to data from the Commodity Exchanges and Wholesale Markets State Commission. 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. In 2022, the index fell at the end of June to 2,039 points and remained relatively low until the end of September.
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 | 2.49 | 2.50 | 0.4% |
| Hothouse cucumbers | 2.15 | 2.50 | 16.3% |
| Potatoes | 0.98/span> | 1.23 | 2.5% |
| Carrots | 1.53 | 1.46 | -4.6% |
| Cabbage | 0.89 | 0.95 | 6.7% |
| Lettuce (a piece) | 1.23 | 1.20 | -3.2% |
| Imported apples | 1.99 | 2.00 | 0.5% |
| Lemons | 2.79 | 2.88 | 3.2% |
| Bananas | 2.72 | 2.76 | 1.5% |
| Peaches | 2.41 | 2.50 | 3.7% |
| Apricots | 2.55 | 2.84 | 11.4% |
| White brined cheese from cow's milk | 11.25 | 11.13 | -1.1% |
| Vitosha yellow kashkaval cheese | 17.12 | 17.12 | 0.0% |
| Chicken | 6.57 | 6.57 | 0.0% |
| Size M eggs (a piece) | 0.32 | 0.32 | 0.0% |
| Rice | 3.18 | 3.19 | 0.3% |
| Lentils | 4.11 | 4.20 | 2.2% |
| Haricot beans | 4.02 | 4.00 | -0.5% |
| Grade 500 flour | 1.27 | 1.31 | 3.1% |
| Sunflower oil (per litre) | 2.96 | 2.94 | 2.0% |
| Butter (per 125 g) | 2.60 | 2.54 | 3.2% |
| Sugar | 2.38 | 2.40 | 0.8% |
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