The rise in prices deprives a large part of the people in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh to supply winter requirements

The prices of vegetables destined for winter supplies increased in the markets of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods, which deprived a large part of the people, especially the displaced people of occupied Afrin.

The correspondent of Aso News Network in Aleppo said that many families, especially the people of Afrin residing in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh, have canceled the idea of ​​buying vegetables to supply them for the winter, as the price of a kilo of red pepper has become 1,400 Syrian pounds, molokhia for about 1,000, tomatoes for 900 pounds, and cheese for about 13,500 thousand. Prices are subject to rise, so that the price of okra has become high and it is no longer possible to buy it, as the price of a kilo has reached 4,500 Syrian pounds, and despite the presence of vegetables designated for supply, there is no demand for buying them, but rather shopping in the vegetable markets to buy dishes.

Lina Julkan, a housewife in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, told Aso News Network, “We were unable to buy peppers or tomatoes for their sauce, which means that we will spend this winter without supplies at all, and we will have to buy half a kilo and a quarter of a kilo while we cook any food that requires the presence of tomatoe sauce and tomatoe in it, and indicated that she usually supplies everything the house needs, including Makdous, Molokhia, molasses of peppers and tomatoes, but since their displacement from Afrin, the situation has worsened, so that this winter will be the most difficult for them because nothing is permanently supplied.

She added, on normal days, they cannot provide a cook, so how will they be able to supply the winter’s food supply.

Because she does not have a breadwinner, “Samar Sido,” a mother of seven children in the Ashrafieh neighborhood, told Aso News Network that last season she was unable to supply anything and this season, apparently, she will not be able to either. She explained that in Afrin they were securing winter supplies from all requirements, But the prices here are very high, and they do not have the ability to buy vegetables that are dried and supplied, and even they will not be able to secure the winter foods that will be requested by their children, and they can rely on what they will try to buy in order to prepare the food.

Samar is in a state of shock because, as she puts it, she will not be able to put in supplies for this winter.

While some families are satisfied with buying a little because they are accustomed to preparing sauce of peppers or tomatoes on their own, and do not buy them from the market, and in case of necessity, they use canned tomatoes, which are not popular with the people.

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