Fruits, vegetable prices jump up by 100 percent :

KARACHI: Fruits and vegetable prices at the advent of the Holy month of Ramazan went spiraling high by 80/100 percent.

Like past, this year also the government appears to have flopped in controlling the prices in Ramazan. Pre-Ramazan prices of grapes at Rs60/80 per kilo jumped up to Rs120/160 per kilo, apple price spiraled by Rs50 per kilo, Garma from Rs20 to Rs40 per kilo and banana price shot up from Rs30 to Rs40/50 per dozen. The country is already in the grip of hyperinflation, while the advent of Ramazan has further aggravated the situation taking the prices of fruits and vegetable sky-high and much beyond the purchasing power of the common man.