Food Prices Up Across the Bricks Lego Region

A market in Equanter. Prices of vegetable in the kingdom has gone up, causing hardship to the poor.

The recent civil war in Brikvania has pushed food prices across the Bricks Lego region higher in the past month. 

The higher food prices is a result of many wholesalers storing food reserves in anticipation of an all-out war across the region.   

The Principality of Castonia, which relies on farming for its economy, has seen high demand from Malatia for its vegetables. This came about as Malatia has began stockpiling on food supply. 

Castonia exports nearly 70% of its vegetables to Malatia, but this figure increase to 95% as Malatia offers higher prices. As a result, the prices of vegetables in Equanter and Suva have skyrocketed. 

Brikvanian farming industry has also suffered as a result of the civil war. 80% of Brikvanian chicken farms are located in the Malatian Province. With the ethnic rebels having wrested control of much of the territories in the Province, Brikvania could not supply chickens and eggs to Legonia, Equanter and Fabuland.

In Legonia, the price of chicken meat has gone from $2 Bricks dollars per kilo to $3.50. Many shoppers are complaining that they have to cut down on chicken consumption.

The newly-formed Legonian Economic Ministry is looking for other sources of supply for chicken and eggs. 

In Equanter, residents are eating less vegetables. "The price for spinach has gone up two times since last month", said a vegetable-trader based in Equanter.