• Vegetable price slump offsets costlier staples
• Tomato glut eases prices, hurts growers
• Flour, milk and meat rates climb

KARACHI: Traders appear dissatisfied with the official inflation numbers, despite the fact that prices of many items have declined compared to rising trend in other items.

Consumers have found some relief in vegetable prices, with tomatoes leading the decline. Tomato prices have dropped to as low as Rs30 per kg in various cities, although this relief for consumers has hit growers hard.

In Karachi, several pushcart vendors are seen offering 2.5kg to 3kg tomatoes for Rs100, owing to heavy arrivals from producing areas.

According to the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) for the last week of December 2025, the national average price of tomatoes ranged between........

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