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By Kirubel Tadesse - Capital
28 August, 2007
The price of meat picked up on August 23, 2007, and is still showing increment after the end of the Ethiopian Orthodox sixteen day fast. Prior to the fast, one kilo of meat was sold for twenty six to twenty eight birr for ‘wot’, thirty birr for raw meat and around thirty five birr for ‘Kitfo’. Now the price has picked up to thirty five to thirty eight birr respectively, at most butcheries in Sebategna and Mexico areas.
One buyer Capital talked to in Sebategna said, “the price is rising constantly and is worrying if it keeps on as the new millennium celebrations approach. A few weeks back, I thought the price rose because ‘Felseta’ (Lent), was to start and people tend to buy more meat products in ‘Kebela’ season, but now a days after the fast, it is still showing increment on a daily basis.”
Even as prices escalated many people were buying meat on Thursday but on Friday and Saturday most butcheries were empty.
A butcher said that the price of meat did not show all that much increment. He added, “It is usually like this when a fast is over; the price is not that much inflated here in Sebategna. If you go to some other places you will see that the price is around fifty birr. I think this price will not go down since the millennium is approaching and its a holiday as usual and we get more customers than ordinary days.”
In related news, markets in Addis Ababa showed little increment in the prices of sheep and chickens. A small sheep is now around 300 birr and the bigger ones are sold up to 600 birr.