Prices of almost all the daily essentials remained unchanged in Dhaka city’s kitchen markets on Monday with the exception of imported garlic.
Broiler, Pakistani, Sonali and layer chicken and eggs, the key protein sources for the common people, remained static maintaining the previous hike.
Prices of newly harvested local onion, one of the main cooking ingredients, remained static at wholesale and retail markets maintaining its falling trend.
Prices of local ginger, and varieties of ginger –local and imported one -- remained steady.
Stakeholders said prices of many other essentials remained steady, at a higher level in most cases.
Contacted Akash (single name), a vendor at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, said the price of garlic declined by Tk 25 per kg at both wholesale and retail markets.
Wholesalers at the capital’s Shyam Bazar were selling garlic at Tk 125 per kg on Monday while it was Tk 150 a couple of days ago, he said.
Imported ginger was selling at Tk 100 a kg at the wholesale level on Monday, said vendor Akash.
The newly harvested onion was selling at Tk 30-Tk 32 a kg at the wholesale level, according to him.
Prices of imported Burmese onion remained Tk 29 a kg at the wholesale level. Retailers were selling it at Tk 40 a kg on Monday, Akash added.
Broiler chicken was selling at Tk 175-Tk 180 a kg at the retail level, Rasel (single name), a salesman at New Bismillah Broiler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, told The Financial Express (FE).
Layer chicken was selling at Tk 205 per kg at wholesale level Sunday, he stated. The retailers were selling layer chicken at Tk 215 per kg, he mentioned.
Red eggs were selling at Tk 100 a dozen at the retail level in the same market, Rasel added.
The retail price of imported garlic was reported to be Tk 145-Tk 153 a kg, according to the Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM).
The retail price of broiler chicken was reported to be Tk 158-Tk 164 a kg, according to DAM. Local onion was selling at Tk 46- Tk 50 a kg at retail level.
Items such as flour, edible oil and sugar witnessed no remarkable change either, meaning that the previous higher level of prices continued on Monday.
This correspondent was also told that prices of brinjals, pumpkins, bitter gourd, pointed gourd, newly harvested potatoes and green chilli remained steady in the past few days.
The Department of Agricultural Marketing report showed that four pieces of eggs were selling at Tk 32-Tk 34. Accordingly, the price of a kg local sugar was Tk 76-Tk 78 a kg, salt (packed) Tk 27-Tk 32 a kg, lentils Tk 107-Tk 113 a kg and flour (packed) Tk 40-Tk 42 a kg.
Red tomatoes were selling at Tk 44-Tk 52 per kg while soybean oil at Tk 143-Tk 145 a litre, garlic (local) at Tk 47-Tk 57 a kg, ginger (local) at Tk 70-Tk 79 a kg and ginger (imported) at Tk 84-Tk 96 a kg.
Beef was selling at Tk 551-Tk 571 a kg, the DAM report added.
A vegetable vendor, Faruk (single name), claimed that prices of almost all vegetables remained unchanged on Monday.
Mobile vegetable vendor named Hriday was selling cauliflower (larger size) at Tk 30-Tk 35 each piece with the same price of the previous Day.
The new potato was selling at Tk 23-Tk 25 a kg at the wholesale level, vendor Faruk added.
Jubayer Hossain, a wholesaler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, said the prices of flour, edible oil, sugar and lentils remained high.
