Garlic, ginger and egg prices soar

Other commodities stable

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Staff Reporter :
The price of fish, egg, onion, garlic and ginger increased while that of other commodities price has remained stable over the week in the city’s kitchen markets.
Visiting different kitchen markets on Friday, the reporter observed that fish price has increased by Tk 50 to 250 per kg after Ramzan.
Climbing fish (Haor) was selling at Tk 500 to 600 per kg, butter fish at Tk 500 to 550, lobster at Tk 600 to 750, shrimp (River) at Tk 650 to 700, puti at Tk 400 to 800 per kg, cultivated koi at Tk 200 to 220 per kg, Fali Chanda (Rupchanda) at Tk 1000 to 1100 per kg, Eel at Tk 700 to 800 per kg, Batashi at Tk 500 to 600, Aire fish at Tk 800 to 1000, Baila at Tk 600 to 800 per kg, coral fish at Tk 550 to 850 per kg, river Pangas at Tk 400 per kg, cultivated Pangas at Tk 170 per kg, Rajputi at Tk 550 per kg and Telapia at Tk 200 to Tk 220 per kg, walking fish at Tk 600 per kg, Sheat at Tk 600 to 800 per kg, cat fish at Tk 700 to 800 per kg, Carp at Tk 300 to 320 per kg, Scorpion fish at Tk 500 to 700 per kg, Salmon (Rui) at Tk 300 to 650 per kg, tengra at Tk 700 to 900, lata at Tk 300, shoul at Tk 650, Pabda at 500 to 600 and Golsha at Tk 700-800, trout at Tk 300 to 400 per kg, mango fish at Tk 400 per kg, mackerel at Tk 400 to 500 per kg, and Hilsha weighing 900gm to 1kg was selling at Tk 1000 per piece.
Of chicken, local (deshi) chicken weighing 800 gm to 900 gm was selling at Tk 600 per kg on Friday. Pakistan origin sonali coack weighing 600 gm was selling Tk 270 per piece. The white broiler chicken was selling at
Tk 150 to Tk 160 per kg, mother chicken at Tk 200 per kg and deshi small size chicken at Tk 350 per piece only. Beef meat and mutton were selling at Tk 550 to 570 and mutton at Tk 750 to 800.
Egg (boiler) was selling at Tk 35 per hali, local hen’s egg at Tk 70 hali and egg of duck was selling at Tk 50 to 55 per hali.
The price of vegetables has remained stable. The horse radish was selling at Tk 50 to 60 per kg, bean at Tk 200, brinajl at Tk 50 to 60, balsam apple at Tk 50 to 60, okra at Tk 40, bitter gourd at Tk 50, french beans (borboti) at Tk 70, carrot at Tk 80 to 100, tomato at Tk 60 to 80, snake gourd at Tk 50, spone gourd at Tk 50, cucurbitaceous at Tk 50, green chilli at 80 to 90, cucumber at Tk 35 to 40, green papaya at Tk 40 to 50, pumpkin (medium size) at Tk 50 to 90 per piece, bottle gourd at Tk 40 to 50, ash gourd at Tk 25 to 30 per piece, cauliflower at Tk 30 to 35 per piece, coriander leaves at Tk 200 per kg, capsicum (red) at Tk 400 per kg and capsicum (green) at Tk 300 to 350 per kg and lemon was selling at Tk 10 to Tk15 per piece.
A one litre container of soya bean oil was selling at Tk 105-110, while a five-litre container at Tk 505-525 in the city’s kitchen markets. Unpacked soya bean oil was selling at Tk 98 a kg, while palm oil was selling at Tk 85 a kg. Fine quality of packet salt was selling at Tk 40 a kg, while the refined one at Tk 28 a kg in the city markets.
Rice price decreased by Tk 4 to 6 per kg. The superior quality of rice, Nazirshail was selling at Tk 55 to 58 per kg, Minicate at Tk 44 to 46, medium quality of Bridhan-28 and Lata rice at Tk 38-40 while different kinds of coarse rice like Swarna were selling at Tk 41 and similarly the hybrid quality coarse rice at Tk 4 to Tk 45 per kg.
The price of red lentil remained unchanged. The local variety of red lentil was selling at Tk 110, while the coarse variety of imported red lentil was selling at Tk 85 over the week.
The local variety of onion was selling between Tk 30 to 35 per kg, imported Indian and variety at Tk 25 to 28. The garlic was selling at Tk 150 per kg and ginger at Tk 150 to 160 per kg while it was selling at Tk 120 and 130 per kg repectively last week.
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