Noman Mosharef :
The price of daily essentials is hiking in the country making the middle and lower income group people unnerved as they feel bewildered to maintain their families. Almost all daily commodities price have gone beyond the limited income people.
But in the chicken market there is a little good news for the consumers, as the price of boiler chicken was showing down trend, selling at Tk 160 to Tk 165. One week before, it was Tk 170, whereas Sonali chickens were selling at Tk 300-320 and one week before at Tk 260-290. Layer chicken price, however, remained stable with Tk 220-230 per kilo.
Kaptan Bazar chicken trader Hasan Ali said after lifting of all kinds of Covid-19 restrictions people from different quarters are arranging programmes which impacted the rise of chicken price.
He said, the sales at hotels and restaurants went up in view of high demand for Sonali Chickens. As a result, high demand contributes to high price.
Khilgoan businessman Ruhul Amin said that basically boiler chicken consumers are for lower income group of people. But in the market all most all kinds of daily essentials are at high price. So, poor people are facing hardship to buy rice, oil and others which impacted the sale of broiler chicken. For that despite the high rate of Sonali Chicken, the boiler is being sold at lower price.
On the other hand, the price of egg remained stable as being sold at Tk 110-115 per dozen. There is not a single vegetable being sold below Tk 40 in the market except potato. The price of onion is again showing upward trend Per kg onion is being sold at Tk 50 at present.
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 were selling 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 Tk35 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 Tk40 to Tk50.
Leafy vegetables, such as spinach, were selling at Tk15 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.
In the fish market, Rohit and Carp were sold at Tk 250-350 a kg, 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.
