Maghreb Arab News Agency:
The indicative figure for consumption in the city of El-Ayoun during the month of March 2023.
recorded an increase of 0.3 percent compared to last February.
According to the bulletin on the development of the indicative number of prices at consumption.
issued by the Regional Directorate of the High Commissioner for Planning in Laayoune, that this indicator.
reached the level of 116.1 last March, compared to 115.8 during February 2023.
The same source added that this rise resulted from an increase in the food index by.
0.6 percent and a decrease in the non-food index by 0.5 percent.
Thus, food prices recorded, between February and March 2023, an increase, in particular fruits by 5.6 percent.
bread and cereals by 1.5 percent, oils and fats by 1 percent, milk, cheese and eggs by 0.4 percent, and coffee, tea and cocoa by 0.4. percent, and non-alcoholic beverages by 0.3 percent.
While the prices of vegetables decreased by 3.1 percent, “fish and seafood” by 2.0 percent, and meat by 0.3 percent.
Compared to the same month of the previous year, the indicative number of prices at consumption during the month of March in El-Ayoun city increased by 8.4 percent.
This increase resulted from an increase in the prices of foodstuffs by 13.4 percent, and the prices of non-food items by 4.6 percent.