Afghanistan: Countrywide Weekly Market Price Bulletin, Issue 300: Week 3 - June 2026

The Afghanistan Countrywide Weekly Market Price Bulletin (Issue 300, Week 3 of June 2026) reported that the afghani (AFN) was nearly stable at about AFN 64.3 per USD during the third week of June. Despite recent depreciation, the bulletin said the currency remains stronger than last year’s level (down about 8%) and the three-year average (about 15%), helping moderate imported inflation pressures. Domestic markets continued operating normally, supported by generally adequate commodity availability from ongoing harvests and seasonal arrivals. Average national food prices stayed broadly stable week-on-week, while several items remained above last year, including wheat grain (+12%), wheat flour high-price (+9%) and low-price (+12%), rice high-quality (+31%) and low-quality (+33%), sugar (+17%) and salt (+10%). By contrast, pulses (-13%) and bread (-4%) were below last year. Diesel prices edged up (+0.7%) and fertilizer costs rose, with DAP and urea increasing week-on-week.