Following the tomato shortage this week in the Kurdish region and Kobani, residents have been talking about it daily, making jokes and comparing tomatoes to gold. This coincides with the regime’s failure to discuss a political transfer of power with full powers in Geneva.
In Kobani, tomatoes have disappeared, forcing inhabitants, especially restaurant owners, to cook without them. In Jazira, a kilogram of tomatoes costs more than 1,000 Syrian pounds.
This commodity is essential to people’s daily lives, hence wholesale market officials and traders have worked harder to obtain it in Jazira. Monday saw more than three tons of tomatoes at Kobani’s wholesale market.
Kobani wholesale market trader Ismail Muhammad told Kurdistan Street that they will sell tomatoes to shop owners for 500 Syrian pounds per kilo and retail them for 550.
Muhammad noted that zucchini and bean prices have dropped. Wholesale beans cost 80 Syrian pounds and zucchini 225.