Noman Mosharef :
The price of daily essentials continues to rise in the market making the middle and lower income group of people unnerved as and exhansted to maintain their families.
Almost all daily commodities price have gone beyond the purchasing capacity people as recently the price of edible oil increased one more time.
The scenario of kitchen market, specially the vegetables’ market have made another unbelievable picture whereas the winter season is famous for fresh vegetables with low price, which could not be seen this year.
As a result, the people from lower classes facing hardship to lead their life forcing themselves to stand behind at the TCB (Trade Corporation of Bangladesh) truck and to visit the lower price market.
On Thursday, a TCB truck was parked at Mohammadpur bus stand where about two hundred people were waiting for buying products.
In that queue a girl student from capital’s one
government college was on foot expressing uneasiness in her attitude.
She said that her family is struggling to maintain their family as her father is a retired government official. The family is solely dependent on his pension.
Not only that girl, a certain number of families from middle and lower middle class group stand behind the TCB truck.
There are not a single vegetable which is being sold less Tk 50 in the market except potato which price also increased by Tk 3 last week.
After visiting vegetables market in the capital it was seen that one piece of bottle gourd was selling at Tk 60 to 70 at Karwan Bazar, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbages at Tk 50 to Tk 60 per piece based on its size and quality.
Good quality of bean was selling at Tk 70 to 80 per kg, while long bean at Tk70 to Tk 80 per kg, tall brinjal at Tk 80 to Tk 100 per kg, eggplant at Tk 90 to Tk 100 per kg, pumpkin at Tk 70 per kg, bean seed at Tk 80 per kg, papaya at Tk 30 to Tk 35 per kg, green chilli at Tk 80 to Tk 90 per kg, potato (new) at Tk15 to Tk 20, the local variety of newly-harvested a bit higher, carrot at Tk 50 to Tk 60 per kg based on size and quality, okra at Tk 80 per kg, ash-guard at Tk 70 to Tk 80 per piece and tomato at Tk 50 to Tk 60.
Leafy vegetables, such as spinach, were selling at Tk 15 to Tk 20 per bundle, red spinach at Tk10 to Tk15, green spinach at Tk 20 per bundle and coriander leaves at Tk120 per kg.
At the weekend on Friday, the price of broiler chicken fell in the capital’s kitchen markets by Tk 10 per kilo whereas that of Sonali chicken (popularly known as Pakistani Cock) increased by Tk 20 per kilo.
It was seen in capital kitchen market, The broiler chicken was at Tk 155 to Tk 160, one week before it was at Tk 170-175, whereas Sonali chickens were selling at Tk 250-280 and one week before at Tk 240-260. Layer chicken price, however, remained stable with Tk 220-230 per kilo..
On the other hand, the price of egg remained stable as being sold at Tk 110-115 per dozen.
Capital’s Rampura kitchen market chicken trader Md Salam Sheikh said that the price of broiler chicken fell by Tk 40 in a month with signs of further decrease.
He said, demand for broiler chickens is decreasing and for others increasing As a result there is no shortage of chicken in the market.
In the fish market, Rohit and Carp are being sold at Tk 250-350, Walking fish at Tk 500-600, Telapia and Pangas at Tk 150-170.
Besides, a Hilsha weighing one and a half kilogram is being sold at Tk 1,000-1200 per kg while smaller size at Tk 500-600 only, while shrimp at Tk 600-650 only. The cat fish was selling at Tk 400 to 450 at Baganbari, South Goran on Friday, taki mach at Tk 350, Papda at Tk 400 and boal mach at Tk 600 only.
