Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj :
The prices of most of the essential commodities, including rice, edible oil, red lentil, chicken and sugar, remained high in the kitchen markets of Kishoreganj over the week ending on Friday.
Prices of three important spices — onion, ginger and garlic have been static.
.prices of eggs and chicken varieties — Broiler , Sonali and Pakistani — have also remained unchanged.
Although the government allowed refiners to increase the prices of edible oil and sugar from time to time in line with the international market prices, the traders were charging higher than the government-set prices for the commodities.
The commerce ministry on October 19 allowed the traders to increase the price of edible oil by Tk 7 a litre.
A one-litre bottle of soya bean oil sold for Tk 155-160 while five litres of packaged soya bean oil sold for Tk 690-750 on the markets in kishoreganj town on the day.
The commerce ministry and the refiners on September 9 set the retail price of unpackaged refined sugar at Tk 74 a kg and that of packaged sugar at Tk 75 a kg but the price of the item still remained high and was selling at Tk 78-80 a kg in the town.
The prices of rice remained high in the city markets over the week.
The coarse variety of rice was selling for Tk 48-50 a kg and the medium quality variety for Tk 54-58 a kg.
The standard variety of Miniket rice sold for Tk 62-64 a kg, the fine variety for Tk 65-68 a kg and Najirshail for Tk 68-70 a kg on Friday.
The price of red lentil also remained high in kishoreganj ‘s kitchen markets.
The coarse variety of red lentil sold for Tk 90-95 a kg and the medium quality variety for Tk 100 a kg on Friday.
