Red Sea Price-Cut Scheme: Sugar and Rice at 25 Pounds a Kilo, a Litre of Milk at 44

The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade is running its price-reduction initiative in Red Sea Governorate, offering a range of basic food and household goods at fixed prices. The scheme runs nationwide and is intended to increase supply, ease living costs and steady the markets, the newspaper Youm7 reported on Saturday.

These are the prices published for the governorate.

Food staples

• Packaged sugar, 1 kg — 25 pounds
• Packaged rice, 1 kg — 25 pounds
• Packaged flour, 1 kg — 20 pounds
• Blended cooking oil, 700 ml — 50 pounds
• Pasta, 350 g — 9 pounds
• Tomato sauce, 300 g — 14 pounds
• Fine tea, 40 g — 5 pounds
• Table salt, 300 g — 1.5 pounds
• Vinegar 5%, 900 ml — 10 pounds
• Plain and salted biscuits — 2 pounds a piece

Dairy, spreads and tinned goods

• White cheese triangles, 80 g — 5 pounds; 125 g — 7 pounds; 250 g — 14 pounds
• Full-fat milk, 1 litre — 44 pounds
• Powdered milk, 100 g — 25 pounds
• Plain tahini halva, 40 g — 4 pounds
• Jam, 300 g — 20 pounds
• Shredded tuna, 140 g — 24 pounds
• Chicken stock, box of 8 cubes — 13 pounds
• Vegetable ghee, 350 g sachet — 40 pounds; 700 g jar — 70 pounds

Pulses

• Yellow lentils, 500 g — 22.5 pounds
• Whole brown lentils, 500 g — 20 pounds
• Black-eyed peas, 500 g — 26.5 pounds
• Fava beans, 500 g — 16.5 pounds

Household goods

• Hand-wash powder, 60 g — 4.5 pounds; 800 g — 33 pounds
• Automatic washing powder, 800 g — 45 pounds
• Washing-up liquid, 70–80 g — 3 pounds
• Toilet soap, 125 g — 14 pounds

The published list covers prices only. It does not say how long the prices hold.