在新德里,由于坚果价格飙升而果干相对低廉,消费者们纷纷购买果干以取代坚果。果干生产商担心果干价格上涨将会导致果干销售下降。消费者们购买的果干包括蔓越桔、杏、李和无花果等,以取代杏仁、腰果和开心果。今年人们更喜爱将干果作为礼物,而不是坚果。尽管坚果的价格飙升导致需求下降了5%~10%,干果价格并未下滑。印度排灯节来临前,杏仁和腰果作为全年消费的零食,往年是数量最多的排灯节礼物包。 In New Delhi, consumers are buying dried fruits instead of nuts because of the relative low price of dried fruit due to soaring prices of nuts. Dried fruit producers are worried that a rise in dried fruit prices will result in a decline in dried fruit sales. Consumers buy dried fruits including cranberries, apricots, plums and figs to replace almonds, cashews and pistachios. This year, people prefer to use dried fruit as a gift rather than nuts. Although the price of nuts has led to a 5% -10% decrease in demand, the price of dried fruits has not declined. Before the advent of Indian Diwali, almonds and cashews as the annual consumption of snacks, the largest number of previous years, Diwali gift kits.