{"id":34448,"date":"2012-03-06T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/03\/06\/235027\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:55:53","slug":"february-prices-drop-by-0-9-in-armenia-from-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/03\/06\/34448\/","title":{"rendered":"February prices drop by 0.9% in Armenia from January"},"content":{"rendered":"

YEREVAN, March 6. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Consumer price index in Armenia drops by 0.9% in February of 2012 from January, Gurgen Martirosyan, Head of Department of Price Statistics and International Comparisons Division of Armenian National Statistical Service, said on Tuesday. Food prices ( including prices on alcoholic beverage and tobacco products) decreased by 1.6% in February from January, industrial goods prices rose by 0.2%, and prices in service sector didn\u2019t change, according to him.<\/p>\n

Martirosyan also said that consumer prices fell by 1.2-0.2 % in the county in February from January, and the highest tumble was reported in Talin. Consumer prices in Yerevan dropped by 1%.Martirosyan pointed out that the fruit sector reported the highest deflation of 28.6%. Prices on eggs (1.2%), vegetables and potatoes (12.7%), sea food (0.8%), dairy products (0.3%), oil of plant or animal origin (1.1%) also fell.<\/p>\n

\u201c Prices on such products as coffee, tea and cocoa reported 1% inflation, prices on meat products increased by 0.1%, confectionary \u2013 1.3%, bread products \u2013 0.6%, alcoholic beverage and tobacco products-1.2%,\u201d he said.Martirosyan also clarified that Armenia faced February deflation just 6 times within the last 20 years.He said that February inflation in Armenia reached 3% in 2012 from a year earlier. This is explained by 3.3 % consumer prices increase( including alcoholic beverage and tobacco products) and 3.7 % industrial goods prices rise. The state budget for 2012 year forecasts 4% (\u00b11,5%) level inflation in Armenia. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February prices drop by 0.9% in Armenia from January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12467],"class_list":["post-34448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economy-en","category-news","tag-armenia-2","tag-prices"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t