At last! Price of onion, tomato and nopales drops up to 26%

He precio from onion, nopales y tomato fell to more than 26% during March 2024, after several weeks of significant increases, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).

He noted that the cost of onion registered a monthly decrease close to 19.89%, which represented a relief for the families y consumerswho at the beginning of the year paid more than 70 pesos for a kilo of food.

He highlighted that the cost of tomato fell 12.46% in the third month of the year, which also began to erase the impact caused by the pocket of Mexicans during January 2024, when it exceeded 50 pesos per kilo.

While the price of the nopales fell 26.86%, followed by the vegetables As the squash, calabacita y green tomatowhich showed drops of 13.30%, 12.56% and 5.20%, respectively.

The Consumer Price Index of the Minimum Consumption Basket had a monthly increase of 0.17% and 4.04% at an annual rate. This last figure is lower than the 4.42% rate recorded by national inflation.”

— Inegi

Products that increased in price

In contrast to these results, the Inegi indicated that the precio of the pollolos tickets of plane and the Gasoline caused a new disaster to the economy of the familieswith increases of up to 28%, during the last month.

He stated that, even though the national rate of inflation had a marginal rebound from 4.40% to 4.42% last March, the cost of pollo rose 8.45%, whose economic impact was magnified because it was food of consumption massive.

The institute pointed out that the price of tickets of plane was the product that became most expensive in the last month, with an increase of 28.35%, due to the high demand registered by the air Transport during the vacation of Easter.

While the precio from Gasoline low octane or type Magna achieved an increase of 0.78%, which may seem much lower compared to the rise in chicken and plane tickets, but which affects the entire economy as a whole.