Update: 7:04PM The price of vegetables and root crops at the Lautoka Market has gone up a bit.

A check this afternoon revealed that the price
of most food produced in farms had increased.

Lautoka Market Vendors Association president Makareta Rika confirmed that
prices had gone up.

“A bag of cassava that was bought by vendors for $35 before was sold to
them for $50 today,” she said.

“So a heap of cassava that was $2 or $3 before is being sold for $5 now.

“The price of long bean and other vegetables have also gone up.”

Mrs Rika said vendors had no option but to increase the price of vegetables and
root crops because they were paying higher prices to the suppliers.