Economic Reporter :
Prices of almost all essentials, including vegetables and onion, have remained steady in the capital’s kitchen markets on Thursday.
Prices of major vegetables, namely brinjal, bean, pumpkin, bitter gourd, pointed gourd, potato and green chilli have remained static.
However, the price of cauliflower hiked by Tk 5 each and the price of radish increased by Tk 30 per kg.
Prices of three important spices-onion, ginger and garlic – have remained steady.
Prices of eggs and chicken varieties-broiler, Sonali and Pakistani – have also remained unchanged.
The state-run Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) in its daily report on Thursday stated that the prices of eggs, local sugar, salt (packed), lentil, onion and flour (packed) are Tk 36-Tk 37 (four pieces), Tk 78-Tk 80 per kg, Tk 27-Tk 33 per kg, Tk 105-Tk 112 per kg, Tk 54-Tk 57 per kg and Tk 37-Tk 39 per kg , respectively.
Tomatoes (mature) are selling at Tk 102-Tk 113 per kg, broiler chickens at Tk 146-Tk 151 a kg, soybean oil is selling at Tk 143-Tk 145 per litre, garlic (local) at Tk 47-Tk 57 per kg, garlic (imported) at Tk 115-Tk 122 per kg, ginger (local) at Tk 81-Tk 94 per kg and ginger (imported) at Tk 89-Tk 102 per kg.
After visiting some city kitchen markets, the correspondent found that prices of other different essential spices have been stable compared to the prices in the past week.
Commenting on the situation, Hriday, a vegetable vendor at the city’s Adabor Bazar, told that prices of almost all vegetables have remained unchanged on Thursday.
Round brinjal( both black and white) is selling at Tk 160-300 per five kg at the wholesale level this day, while long brinjal at Tk 150-200 per five kg at the wholesale level, he said.
As for the round and long brinjal at the retail level, he said he is selling them for Tk 40-Tk 60 per kg.
The vegetable vendor said he has bought five kg of bitter gourd at Tk 250 today which was the same as on Wednesday.
He is now selling it at Tk 60 per kg at the retail level.
Hriday is selling pumpkins (winter) at Tk 35-45 each at the retail level this day.
Asked about the retail prices of beans, cabbage, cauliflower and local cucumber, another vegetable mobile vendor Maksedul said he is selling beans at Tk 40-Tk 50 per kg.s
The cabbage price was sold at Tk 25-Tk 35 each.
The cauliflower was at Tk 35-Tk 40 each Thursday which was Tk 30-Tk 35 Wednesday.
Some other vegetable vendors at Adabor, Mohammadpur Krishi Market along with mobile vendors also echoed the same price level.
Akash, a wholesaler, said the prices of three important spices-onion, garlic and ginger – have remained stable in the wholesale market.
The prices of different varieties of onion including local are between Tk 42 and Tk 58 per kg in the wholesale market, while ginger (imported) and local garlic are selling at Tk 95-100 and Tk 50-60 per kg respectively, according to him.
The prices of garlic at wholesale markets range between Tk 45 and Tk 100 per kg, he said.
Wholesaler Akash said he is making a profit of Tk 2.0 to 3.0 per kg from selling onion, and of Tk 5.0 to 10 from selling garlic and ginger at the retail level.
Rasel, a salesman at New Bismillah Broiler at Mohammadpur Krishi Market, told that he is selling broiler chickens at Tk 160-165 a kg.
Sonali and Pakistani chicken are selling at Tk 260 and Tk 280 per kg respectively, he said, adding that a dozen of red eggs are selling at Tk 110.
