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KEY FINDINGS
- Food and NFI prices were overall fairly stable, follow-ing price hikes in August and price cuts in September;
- Essential food prices fell 5% in October on top of a 3%drop in prices in September;
- Medicine prices fell 6% in October due to lower med-icine prices in more-expensive markets like Ponnagyun;
- Prices rose the most in Ponnagyun, where meat/fish and vegetables climbed on reports of poor supply;
- Overall prices rose in some markets and fell in others leading to less regional variation for most products;
- The total basket price was up 185% year-on-year, and vegetables and hygiene NFIs were up roughly 300%.