The price of onion, rice and fishes saw an upward trend, but that of vegetables fell to some extent in the city’s kitchen markets on Friday.
The local variety of onion was selling between Tk 120 and 130 per kg, imported Indian variety at Tk 80 to 90 and newly harvested home onion at Tk 80 per kg.
The garlic was selling at Tk 60 to 80 per kg and ginger at Tk 80 to100 per kg.
The price of fresh water fish like Shing, Magur, koi, Sheat, tengra, lata and shoul remained stable.
Shing and magur were selling at Tk 700 to 1000 per kg, koi at Tk 600, sheat at Tk 600, tengra at Tk 350 to 500, lata at Tk 250, shoul at Tk 600, Pabda at 400 to 500, Golsha at Tk 450-600,
Of other fishes, butter fish was selling at Tk 300 to 350, lobster at Tk 450 to 600 ,shrimp (River) at Tk 350 to 400, puti at Tk 200 to 300 per kg, cultivated koi at Tk 150 to 180 per kg, Fali Chanda (Rupchanda) at Tk 900 to 1100 per kg, eel at Tk 450 to 550 per kg, batashi at Tk 400 to 500, koi (river) at Tk 600, Aire fish at Tk 500 to 700, baila at Tk 450 to 600 per kg, coral fish at Tk 450 to 600 per kg, river Pangas at Tk 350 per kg, cultivated pangas at Tk 140 per kg, rajputi at Tk 250 per kg and telapia at Tk 150 to Tk 200 per kg.
The white broiler chicken was selling at Tk 130 to Tk 135 per kg. Mother chicken was selling at Tk 160 to 170 per kg, the sonali cock (Pakistani origin) at Tk 180 to 220 per piece. Local (deshi) chicken weighing 800 gm to 900 gm was selling at Tk 350 to 400 per piece.
Beef was selling at Tk 490-Tk 520 per kg and red meat (goat) at Tk750 to 800 per kg
The rice price increased slightly. Superior quality of Miniket rice was selling at Tk 65 per kg, average miniket at Tk 62 to 65 per kg, and Najirshail at Tk 65 to 70. Jeerashail, Paijam and Lata at Tk 64 to 66 per kg on Friday. Medium quality of Bridhan-28 and Lota were sold at Tk 55-58 per kg. Different kind of coarse rice like Swarna was selling at Tk 56 and similarly the hybrid quality at Tk 55 to Tk 58 per kg.
The correspondent observed while visiting different kitchen markets at Muhammadpur , Karwan Bazar, Malibag, Shantinagar and Hatirpool that the green chilli was selling at Tk 60 to 70 per kg, bean at Tk 30 to 35, brinjal at Tk 40 to 50, potato at Tk 15 to 30, okra at Tk 40 to 50, parble at Tk 50, raddish at Tk 15 to 20, arum at Tk 30 to 40, snake gourd at Tk 40 to 50, french beans at Tk 40 to 60, balsam apple at Tk 70, teasel gourd at Tk 60 to 70, carrot at Tk 100 to 160, bitter gourd at Tk 60 to 70, cucumber at Tk 50 to 60, green papaya at Tk 20 to 30, pumpkin (medium size) at Tk 80 to 120 per piece, bottle gourd at Tk 40 to 50, ash gourd at Tk 30 to 35 per piece, cauliflower at Tk 20 to 25, coriander leaves at Tk150 per kg, capsicum (red) at Tk 350 per kg and capsicum (green) at Tk 250 to 280 per kg. Lemon was selling at Tk eight to Tk10 per piece.
A one litre container of soya bean oil was selling at Tk 105-108, 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 on packet salt was selling at Tk 40 a kg, while the refined one was retailing at Tk 28 a kg in the city markets.
The price of red lentil remained unchanged over the week. The local variety of red lentil was selling at Tk 130-140 a kg. The coarse variety of imported red lentil was retailing at Tk 80-100 a kg over the week.
