DUSHANBE, July 2, 2014, Asia-Plus -- By Dushanbe mayor’s decision all butcher’s shops operating in Dushanbe are exempted from communal payments during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

“Communal payments for butchers average some 900 somoni per month,” Sayfullo Amonov, the head of the Dushanbe directorate for economic development and trade, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him, the Dushanbe mayor’s office is ready to exempt from communal payments all vendors selling essential goods at Dushanbe’s markets during Ramadan at reduced prices.

“Heads of all Dushanbe’s markets irrespective of their forms of property are currently in the regions to buy 20 types of products for sending them to Dushanbe,” said Amonov.  “These products include meat, flour, bread, vegetable oil, rice, macaroni, sugar, milk, eggs, carrots, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbages and melons that will be sold at Dushanbe’s markets at prices that are 10 percent lower than the market ones.”

He further noted that senior representatives of the Dushanbe mayor’s office yesterday met with butchers and a protocol was signed, under which meat will be sold in Dushanbe at a price not higher than 36.00 somoni per kilogram.