According to Expansão – which compared the values of its survey carried out in May of last year with its most recent survey, carried out in February of this year –, of the ten products analyzed (rice, chicken thigh, potato, tomato, cornmeal, bombó fuba, sugar, salt, pasta and cooking oil), seven started to cost less, one good maintained its price and two increased its value.
Thus, it is possible to say that, in general, in the last nine months, the prices of basic food products have decreased. Translating into numbers, according to Expansão, the average cost of these goods fell by around 11.8 percent in the informal market and 8.6 percent in the formal market.
The list of products that registered the biggest drop is led by the thigh box: in the informal market, it went from 12,000 kwanzas to 8,000 kwanzas, while in the formal market it cost 9,000 kwanzas against the previous 13,500 kwanzas.
Also noteworthy is the kilo of chicken that dropped from 1700 to 1500 kwanzas (formal market) and, in the informal market, from 1500 to 1000 kwanzas, writes Expansão.