TEHRAN Wholesale price index increased to 1,032.6 units in the Iranian month of Shahrivar (August 22-September 21), showing 14.2 percent increase compared to the previous month.
The index average was higher by 17.4 percent in the first six months of the Iranian year, which started March 20, compared to the same period in the previous year.
The Economic Statistic Department of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) reported that the prices rose for the following items: red meat, eggs, beans, summer crops, potato, vegetables, unprocessed hide, unprocessed cotton, cumin, domestically-produced medicine, detergents, imported glues, tire for imported lorries and buses, imported aluminium sheets, gas cylinders, batteries, imported sockets as well as autobuses.
It also added that the indices for wholesale eggs, pitted fruits, onions, tomato paste, imported cigarettes, imported cotton and silk fabrics, ironware, cars and Nissan vans dropped in the month compared to the preceding month's figures.
The price index for food products rose by 12.8 percent and that of manufactured items based on raw materials by 14.6 percent in the same month compared to the period in the preceding year.
The index for machinery-vehicles, agricultural and livestock produce and construction material were higher by 14.3 percent, 12.5 percent, and 14.9 percent, respectively, in the same month compared to the same period last year.
(IRNA)