Prices of newly harvested local onions witnessed a decline in Dhaka city’s kitchen markets on Thursday, while prices of almost all essentials remained steady.
The price decline was at Tk 2.0 per kg both at the wholesale and retail level. At the wholesale level, the spicy item was selling at Tk 35 per kg.
Prices of old local and imported onions, however, remained steady. And prices of local ginger and garlic also remained the same.
Broilers also continued to sell at the same price as before.
Prices of some major essentials like flour, edible oil and sugar witnessed no change either, meaning that the previous hike continued.
Prices of major vegetables, namely brinjals, pumpkins, bitter gourd, pointed gourd, new potato and green chili, also remained as before.
On Thursday, according to the daily report by the Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM), eggs were selling at Tk 32-Tk 34 (four pieces), local sugar at Tk 77- Tk 78 per kg, salt (packed) at Tk 27- Tk 32 per kg, lentils at Tk 105-Tk 112 per kg, onion local at Tk 50-Tk 54 per kg and flour (packed) at Tk 39-Tk 41 at the markets.
Red tomatoes were selling at Tk 47-Tk 55 per kg, broiler chickens at Tk 153-Tk 159 a kg, soybean oil at Tk 143-Tk 145 per litre, garlic (local) at Tk 46-Tk 57 per kg, garlic (imported) at Tk 148-Tk 156 per kg, ginger (local) at Tk 69-Tk 77 per kg and ginger (imported) at Tk 84-Tk 96 per kg.
Beef was selling at Tk 551-Tk 572 per kg at the market, according to the DAM report.
After visiting some city kitchen markets, this correspondent found that prices of other different essential spices remained stable.
Rasel, a salesman at New Bismillah Broiler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, told The Financial Express that he was selling broiler chickens at Tk 180-Tk 185 per kg, the same price as Wednesday’s.
He bought Sonali and Pakistani chickens at Tk 255 and Tk 250 per kg respectively, which were the same as Wednesday’s, he said.
Rasel, a salesman, said red eggs were selling at Tk 100 at the retail level.
Talking to The Financial Express, Faruk (single name), a vegetable vendor at the city’s Mohammadpur Krishi Market, said prices of almost all vegetables remained unchanged on Thursday compared to Wednesday.
Five kg of round brinjal (black and white) was selling at Tk 110-Tk 140 at the wholesale level and while five kg of long brinjal at Tk 120-Tk 130 – the same prices as Wednesday’s – on Thursday, he said.
The vegetable vendor said he bought cabbage at Tk 26 per kg and beans at Tk 22 per kg from the wholesale market.
He added that he bought bitter gourd at Tk 250-Tk270 per five kg, which is the same as yesterday's price. And he was now selling the item at Tk 50- Tk 60 per kg at the retail level.
When asked about the retail prices of cauliflower and local cucumber, another mobile vegetable vendor named Hriday said he was selling cauliflower (big size) at Tk 30-Tk 35 each per piece – like Wednesday.
Radish was bought at Tk 125-Tk 130 per five kg at the wholesale level on Thursday, which was also the price the previous day, the vegetable vendor stated.
New potato was selling at Tk 23 per kg at wholesale price, Faruk added.
Some other vegetable vendors at Adabor, Mohammadpur Krishi Market along with mobile vendors also echoed the same price level.
Akash, a vendor at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, said newly harvested onions were selling at Tk 35 per kg at the wholesale level while it was Tk 37-Tk 38 a couple of days before.
He said he bought Indian onions (small size) at Tk 32-Tk 40 per kg and Indian onion (big size) at Tk 40-Tk 45 from the wholesale market.
Imported ginger was selling at Tk 110 per kg and imported garlic at Tk 160-Tk165 per kg at the wholesale level on Thursday, he added.
Jubayer Hossain, a wholesaler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, told The Financial Express that the prices of some major essentials like flour, edible oil, sugar and lentils were maintaining the previous hike.
