A worker at the Green Produce Farm in Claremont, St Ann, reaps some sweet peppers. - Ian Allen Staff/Photographer

SWEET PEPPER

Sweet peppers are easily available now in most retail markets. The asking price for a pound (454.55g) in most rural retail markets is $60 and that same price will be quoted in downtown Kingston's lower priced selling spots.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will ask $50 for a pound of sweet peppers this week.

SWEET POTATO

Sweet potato is currently on good offer in most retail markets and vegetable shops islandwide.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will quote $50 for a pound this week and so will most rural retail markets.

Downtown Kingston's less costly selling spots will quote $40-$50 per pound of sweet potatoes this week.

Beef Stew

A popular meat cut that you can pick up in a number of meat shops, supermarkets and retail market butcher stalls this week is beef stew.

If you are shopping for the meat in any rural meat shop, the asking price per pound will be in the region of $120. Those same prices will hold good at meatoutlets in downtown Kingston's less expensive locations.

Plazas in both the Corporate Area and the rural parishes will ask the most at $230 per pound.

PUMPKIN

Pumpkin for soups, pies or fritters are easily available this week in most retail markets and vegetable shops.

If you are shopping for it in rural retail markets, the asking price for a pound will be $40, and that same price will be asked in less costly downtown Kingston selling spots.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will quote $40-$50 for a pound of pumpkin at this time.

CABBAGE

Cabbage is abundant this week in most retail markets, rural and urban.

Markets in May Pen and Spanish Town will ask $40 for a pound and so will most rural retail markets.

Downtown Kingston's cheaper locations will quote $40-$50 for a pound of cabbage at this time, while Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will ask $50 per pound.

A worker stockpiles cabbage reaped for the market. - File

CALLALOO

Callaloo is easy to come by this week in most retail markets and vegetable shops.

Most rural retail markets will ask $50 per bundle this week, as well as downtown Kingston's less costly selling spots.

YELLOW YAM

Yellow yam is on fair offer at this time in most retail markets, rural and urban.

Most rural retail markets will ask $70-$80 for a pound of the much fancied staple this week, and so will lower priced downtown Kingston selling locations.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will quote $70 for a pound of yellow yam this week.