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Elevated prices of food to dull Christmas festivities

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Shoppers at Naivas Supermarket, Nyali Bazaar Mall in Mombasa on August 29, 2024. 

Photo credit: Kevin Odit | Nation Media Group

Consumers are staring at elevated food prices as they head into the Christmas festivities on a myriad of seasonal factors as well as global price rises, traders have warned.

In a new survey conducted by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), wholesalers and retailers in the food market supply chain foresee a jump in the prices of tomatoes, beans, green grams, green maize, and maize grain on account of seasonality effects.