Highlights
- Retail food prices are at their highest since WFP started to monitor food prices in 2002
- None of the wholesale traders in the survey reported trading in local wheat flour
- Wholesale and retail traders are highly dependent on Dushanbe’s markets for the supply of food commodities
- High taxes, high competition and lack of capital are the main constraints for business according to traders
- An average of 60% of the traders take credit to purchase the commodities they sell
- Fuel prices are at their highest and are not envisoned to go down in the near future, impacting further food prices