Broiler chickens, and both local and imported varieties of lentils have become costlier in Dhaka city’s kitchen markets, adding woes to common people.
Prices of red eggs, and Pakistani and Sonali chickens remained static maintaining the previous hike while all kinds of toiletries followed the same price level.
However, the price of imported garlic (big size) declined by Tk 10 per kg on Friday compared to the last couple of days.
The prices of almost all the daily essentials are still high, according to traders and consumers.
All kinds of vegetables witnessed the same prices both in wholesale and retail levels, said the vegetable trader, vendors and consumers.
Stakeholders said prices of many other essentials remained steady in most cases.
Broiler chicken was selling at Tk 175 per kg at the wholesale level on Friday, which was Tk 170 per kg on Thursday, Rasel (single name), a salesman at New Bismillah Broiler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, told The Financial Express (FE).
Layer chicken was selling at Tk 220 a kg at the wholesale level on Friday, he said, adding that the price of the red egg was Tk 100 a dozen, he stated.
He was retailing red eggs at Tk 105 per dozen, he stated.
The retail price of broiler chicken was reported to be Tk 163-Tk 168 a kg, according to the Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM).
A dozen of red eggs were selling at Tk 32-Tk 34, it said, adding that the price of local lentils was at Tk 108-Tk 114 a kg.
Jubayer Hossain, a wholesaler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, told the FE that the price of local lentils increased further by Tk 5.0 per kg at the retail level while the imported lentil saw an increase by Tk 5.0-Tk 8.0 per kg .
The local item was retailing by him at Tk 115 per kg on Friday, which was Tk 110 on Thursday while the imported lentil was selling at Tk 95-Tk 100 a kg at the retail level, he said.
Terming that the market has been very volatile recently, Jubayer said the prices of flour, edible oil, sugar and imported lentils remained high.
Akash (single name), a vendor at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, said newly-harvested onions were selling at Tk 36-Tk 37 per kg at the wholesale level today (Friday). Imported Indian onions were selling at Tk 45-Tk 46 per kg at the wholesale level.
Imported ginger was selling at Tk 108 a kg at the wholesale level, he added.
Items such as flour, edible oil and sugar witnessed no remarkable change, meaning that the previous higher level of prices continued on Friday.
This correspondent saw that prices of brinjals, pumpkins, bitter gourd, pointed gourd, newly harvested potatoes and green chilli remained steady in the past few days.
A vegetable vendor, Faruk (single name), claimed that the prices of almost all vegetables remained unchanged on Friday.
The wholesale prices of cauliflowers and beans were Tk 25 and Tk 30-Tk 35 respectively on Friday.
The newly-harvested diamond variety of potato was selling at Tk 15-Tk 16 a kg at the wholesale level while the red tomato at Tk 20-Tk 21 at wholesale level, he added.
The wholesale level of green chili was selling at Tk 20-Tk 22 per kg, he said.
Radish was selling at Tk 18-Tk 20 per kg at wholesale level, he added,
