Blusukan To Mardika Market Ambon, Trade Minister Zulhas Gets A Keriting Chili Price Of IDR 70 Thousand Per Kg

Blusukan To Mardika Market Ambon, Trade Minister Zulhas Gets A Keriting Chili Price Of IDR 70 Thousand Per Kg

AMBON - Minister of Trade (Mendag) Zulkifli Hasan visited Mardika Market in Ambon City, Maluku on Sunday 18 June. The Trade Minister checked prices and the availability of basic necessities.

During a visit to a number of traders' stalls, the man who is familiarly called Zulhas said that the prices of a number of basic necessities were still stable, such as rice, broiler eggs, chicken meat, shallots and garlic, cayenne pepper.

"Long curly chili is quite expensive because the price reaches Rp. 70,000 per kilogram," he said, confiscated by Antara.

According to Zulkifli, the price of long curly chilies in Ambon is still expensive, while cayenne pepper or red chilies are normal at IDR 40,000 per kilogram, in contrast to Java where cayenne pepper is more expensive, and curly chilies are cheaper.

However, other basic needs are still stable in price and in order to stay under control, it is necessary to maintain and increase supply to the market, because if there are many goods, the price is stable.

"You have to adjust the supply or supply to the market from the production center, if the goods are not available, the price will move up," he said.

The results of monitoring at Mardika Market are the price of a number of other commodities with shallots of Rp. 40,250 per kilogram of garlic Rp. 40,000 per kilogram, while u broiler chicken is Rp. 45,000 to Rp. 65,000 per head, chicken is Rp. 70,000 to Rp. 90,000 per head.

For fresh beef Rp120,000 per kilogram, spherical skipjack fish Rp45,000 to Rp50,000 per head, fresh skipjack fish Rp50,000 to Rp80,000 per head, diesel fish, namely momar and escort Rp20,500 per five.

Zulhas' visit was accompanied by Acting Mayor of Ambon Bodew Wattimena, Head of the Maluku Province Development Acceleration Governor Team (TGPP) Hadi Bassalamah and Head of Maluku Province Industry and Trade Office Yahya Kotta.