Prices of chicken, fish, and some vegetables increased in Dhaka's kitchen markets on Monday, despite the government's repeated assurances of price stability during Ramadan.
Lemon and cucumber prices remained high, unchanged from the previous day. Meanwhile, chicken and mutton prices edged up, though beef prices stayed stable.
Traders at Karwan Bazar, the capital’s largest vegetable hub, attributed the rising costs to increased demand during Ramadan, despite an adequate supply of most items. Rahim Sarder, a vegetable wholesaler at Karwan Bazar, said lemon and cucumber prices are expected to decrease gradually as supply improves. He noted that newly arrived vegetables are selling at slightly higher prices, but brinjal (eggplant) and tomato prices have slightly declined over the past two days.
On Monday, the eggplant was selling at Tk70-110 per kg, brinjal (long) at Tk60-80 per kg, green chili at Tk60-70 per kg based on quality, bean at Tk60 per kg, tomato at Tk30-35 per kg, carrot at Tk35-40 per kg, potato at Tk20-30 per kg, bitter gourd at Tk100-120 a kg, okra at Tk80-90 per kg, cucumber at Tk60-80 per kg, sponge gourd at Tk80 per kg, arum at Tk80-90 per kg, radish at Tk60 per kg, green papaya at Tk50-60 per kg, French bean at Tk100-120 kg and snake gourd at Tk50-60 per kg. The local variety of onions was selling at Tk40-50 per kg, while the imported onion was at Tk35-45 per kg.
Imported garlic's price also increased and was selling at Tk240 per kg and local garlic at Tk160 a kg. The locally produced ginger was selling at Tk160 per kg while the imported one at Tk130-140 per kg.
The price of red lentil remained high and the fine variety of red lentil was selling at Tk150 per kg while the imported item (coarse variety) was selling at Tk110 per kg. The prices of fish have increased by Tk20-50 per kg.
Among the fish- Puti was selling at Tk400 per kg, live puti at Tk500 kg, mola at Tk500 a kg, cultivated koi at Tk220-250 a kg, Fali Chanda (Rupchada) at Tk1,200 a kg, Chanda small at Tk400 kg, walking fish (Shoal) at Tk500-600 per kg, Eel at Tk700-900 a kg, Meni at Tk500 a kg, sheat (boal) at Tk600-1,200 per kg, Ek-thota (Kaitta fish) at Tk600-650 a kg, Coral Fish at Tk600-700 per kg based on size, river Pangas at Tk500 per kg, cultivated Pangas at Tk150-220 per kg, Rajputi at Tk450 per kg, Tilapia at Tk240 kg and Ruhi at Tk350-400 per kg.
Beef is selling for Tk750-780 per kg, the mutton at Tk1,150-1,200 a kg.
A medium size local chicken (cock) was selling at Tk500-600 per piece and hen at Tk450-500 per piece.
The broiler chicken's price stands at Tk190-220 per kg.
Courtesy: Daily Sun.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
