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Market List

Published:Tuesday | October 7, 2014 | 6:19 PM

Goat flesh

This will be easy to come by at this time in most supermarkets and meat shops across the island.

If you are purchasing this choice meat in retail markets or butcher stalls, the current asking price per pound will be $280. However, you will be asked to pay $380 per pound if you are shopping at a supermarket.

Cabbage

This leafy vegetable will cost you a hefty sum this week. The asking price ranges between $120 and $150 per pound. This price is being quoted in May Pen, Spanish Town and Montego Bay markets.

Cheaper outlets in downtown Kingston will be asking prices as low as $50 per pound.

Cooking tomatoes

The cost of cooking tomatoes has dropped substantially from $250 per pound to $150 per pound in rural retail markets across the island.

Yellow yam

This will cost you a pretty penny this week, with the current asking price being $120 per pound. Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will ask for $140 per pound.

Downtown Kingston's cheaper outlets will charge between $80 and $90 per pound this week.

Oranges

This is easy to come by these days. May Pen market will ask prices ranging between $100 per dozen for the smaller ones to $140 per dozen for the larger ones.

Sweet potatoes

This will cost you a bit more at this time in rural retail markets across the island. The current asking price per pound is $100 and the same holds true for Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market.

Downtown Kingston's cheaper outlets will ask $60 per pound this week.

Pak choi

Pak choi is easy to come

by at this time in rural retail markets across the island. Montego Bay's Charles

Gordon Market will ask you

for anything between $70 and $90 per bundle for pak choi.