{"id":501623,"date":"2025-12-11T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=501623"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:31:25","slug":"seasonal-vegetables-and-heating-saw-the-sharpest-price-increases-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/seasonal-vegetables-and-heating-saw-the-sharpest-price-increases-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Vegetables and Heating Saw the Sharpest Price Increases in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Seasonal vegetables and heating became noticeably more expensive in November, according to data from Belstat. Monthly inflation for the period reached 0.4%, while annual inflation accelerated to 7%.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for fresh cucumbers increased by 34.18% compared to October, sweet peppers by 26.03%, cabbage by 18.88%, and fresh tomatoes by 9.77%.<\/p>\n<p>Heating costs also rose by 8.66%. Although heating tariffs themselves did not change, the billing rules for housing and communal services were updated on 1 October. Under the new system, if an apartment belongs to a person not employed in the economy, higher tariffs apply to all consumed services. Previously, the higher rate applied only to the &#8220;non-working&#8221; share, while other residents paid subsidized tariffs. November was the first month when Belarusians paid under the new rules, which likely explains the increase reflected in Belstat\u2019s data.<\/p>\n<p>International travel services saw the steepest price drop in November \u2014 by 9.85%. Prices for exotic fruits also fell: avocados by 7.32%, bananas by 4.19%. November also marked the introduction of MART-regulated prices for state-purchased potatoes, which fell by an average of 4.09%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the largest price increases were recorded for cocoa (+74.1%), apples (+54.98%), ground coffee (+35.02%), driving lessons (+33.6%), salted herring (+27.68%), and chocolate (+24.55%).<\/p>\n<p>The sharpest declines since January were seen in seasonal agricultural products: garlic (-33.71%), grapes (-27.13%), tomatoes (-19.48%), sweet peppers (-15.37%), rice (-13.59%), and pears (-12.98%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonal vegetables and heating became noticeably more expensive in November, according to data from Belstat. Monthly inflation for the period reached 0.4%, while annual inflation accelerated to 7%. Prices for fresh cucumbers increased by 34.18% compared to October, sweet peppers by 26.03%, cabbage by 18.88%, and fresh tomatoes by 9.77%. Heating costs also rose by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":501622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693a8f74a8d2f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Seasonal Vegetables and Heating Saw the Sharpest Price Increases in November"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}