DUSHANBE, February 21, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- The Dushanbe mayor’s office has announced measures to curb increasing food prices in the city.

Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, says Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev on February 21 singed a decree on allocation of 12 million somoni from the city budget to curb food price hike in the city.

In accordance with this decree and under a tripartite agreement signed by the Dushanbe finance department, state unitary enterprise, Markets and Trade of Dushanbe, and open joint-stock company Jasour, the last has pledged itself to deliver enough grains and flour to the Tajik capital that will be realized in the city through enterprises of Markets and Trade of Dushanbe, the spokesman said, noting that the funds must be repaid until September 1 this year.