Tunisian President launches a war on monopoly and high prices

Al-Taj News – Tunisian President Kais Saied received yesterday at Carthage Palace, Head of Government Sara Zaafarani Zanzari, and the Ministers of Interior, and Trade and Export Development, to discuss ways to curb rising prices and confront monopolies.

According to the presidency’s statement, Saied stressed the need to put an end to what he described as the “mad rise” in prices, and to combat disguised monopolization affecting a number of agricultural goods.

Farmers’ suffering and “manipulation” of dates

The Tunisian President shed light on what he described as a stark disparity between the selling price of dates from the producer and the final price in the markets, noting that “the selling price of a single kilogram of dates by the farmer does not exceed one dinar, despite the strenuous efforts made by female workers, and the hardship and risks borne by farmers and laborers as they spend long hours suspended by ropes high up in the palm trees.”