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Falling tomato prices pull down overall food prices – Media release
14 December 2021
Food prices fell 0.6 percent in November 2021 compared with October 2021, mainly influenced by lower prices for tomatoes, Stats NZ said today.
Tomato prices fell 49 percent in November. However, their price was 54 percent higher than a year ago.
“The weighted average price of 1kg of tomatoes fell from $12.04 in October 2021 to $6.16 in November 2021,” consumer prices manager Katrina Dewbery said. “This compares with $3.99 in November 2020.”
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