The shortage persists in the food basket in May 2024

Stocking the pantry is becoming more expensive every daysince during the fifth month of 2024, the set of the 33 products considered essential minimums in the diet of Mexican families for the National Council for Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) accumulated a increase of 4.5%, the highest rate for this month since 2017when registration began.

According to price survey that Excelsior carries out month by monthIn April, two thousand 89 pesos and 70 cents were needed to purchase the food basket, amount which reached two thousand 184 pesos and 40 cents a month later.

He product that reported the greatest monthly increase in markets and self-service stores It was the Lenten chiliwhose kilo of It went from 19 pesos and 90 cents on April 30 to 53 pesos this May 31which represented an increase of 166.3%, was followed by onion, since a kilo went from 28 pesos and 90 cents to 55 pesos in the same period, which meant an increase of 90.3 percent.

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The banana was added to the list of greatest increasesgiven that it reported a monthly increase in price per kilo of 47.3 percent.

Between the products that dropped in price in the last month the tomato stands outwhose kilo went from 44 pesos and 90 cents on April 30 to 36 pesos and 90 cents this May 31, which represented a decrease of 17.8%, while whole chicken or in pieces went from 52 pesos to 49 pesos in the same period, which meant a reduction of 5.8 percent.

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The price survey of this publishing house indicates that in the first five months of the year, the food basket reported an increase of 0.6 percent.

Octavio de la Torrepresident of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco Servytur), considered that the increase in the food basket so far this year is a reflection of the level of inflation.

The General inflation accelerated for the third consecutive fortnight. According to National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi)he National Consumer Price Index (INPC) decreased 0.21% compared to the previous fortnight, and with this, the annual general inflation stood at 4.78 percent.

To save, Some families have chosen to increase the purchase of free brand productsothers for pieces of food, and others seek to reduce meat consumption due to the high cost of proteins.

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