Winter vegetables have started to arrive in the city’s kitchen markets but the items remained dearer to the low- and middle-income group of people due to higher prices.
The price of green chilli also increased over the week in the capital’s kitchen markets.
Traders said the supply of winter vegetables including cauliflower, cabbage, bean, radish, and spinach had started to increase in the market over the last couple of weeks, but their prices remained high as supply was still not sufficient.
Cauliflower and cabbage weighting around 250 grams to 350 grams were retailing at Tk 35 a piece and 30 a piece respectively on Friday at Shantinagar kitchen market in the city.
Radish, bean and spinach were selling at Tk 40 a kg, Tk 80 a kg and Tk 70 a kg, respectively on Friday.
The prices of other vegetables remained stable over the week.
Aubergine was selling at Tk 40 a kg, tomato at Tk 90 a kg, cucumber at Tk 35 a kg, papaya at Tk 20 a kg, okra at Tk 40 a kg and bitter gourd at Tk 40 a kg on the day.
The price of green chilli increased by Tk 20 a kg and the item was selling at Tk 120 a kg over the week.
The price of onion remained unchanged over the week.
The local variety of onion was selling at Tk 40-Tk 45 a kg while the imported one was selling at Tk 38-Tk 40 a kg on the day.
The prices of local and imported garlic remained unchanged and the items were selling at Tk 80 a kg and Tk 70 a kg respectively.
The prices of fish decreased by Tk 20-Tk 40 a kg over the week.
Rohita was selling at Tk 250-Tk 350 a kg, katla at Tk 230-Tk 300 a kg, pangas at Tk 120-Tk 180 a kg and tilapia at Tk 110-Tk 150 a kg, depending on their size and quality.
The prices of unpacked soya bean and super palm oil remained stable and the items were
retailing at Tk 110 a kg and Tk 80 a kg respectively.
The price of bottled soya bean oil (five litres) remained unchanged and it was selling at Tk 540 to Tk 560 in the city’s kitchen markets.
Ginger price remained unchanged and the commodity was retailing at Tk 160-Tk 280 a kg.
The price of egg remained unchanged and the item was selling at Tk 30 a hali (four pieces) in the city on Friday.
Potato price remained stable and the item was selling at Tk 22-Tk 25 a kg over the week.
Sugar price remained unchanged and it was selling at Tk 45-Tk 47 a kg on Friday.
The price of beef remained high and the item was selling at Tk 300-Tk 320 a kg on Friday.
Broiler price remained unchanged and it was selling at Tk 110-Tk 120 a kg while mutton was selling at Tk 460-Tk 480 a kg over the week.
The price of red lentil imported from Turkey and Canada was selling at Tk 90 a kg on Friday.
The fine variety of red lentil was selling at Tk 120 a kg on Friday while its local variety was selling at Tk 115 a kg.
The prices of rice remained high and coarse varieties of rice were retailing at Tk 35-Tk 37 a kg on Friday.
The fine variety of miniket rice was selling at Tk 48-Tk 50 a kg while the coarse varieties were retailing at Tk 44-Tk 46 a kg.
The fine varieties of BR-28 rice were selling at Tk 42-Tk 46 a kg and the coarse variety of parija was selling at Tk 38-Tk 41 a kg.
The fine variety of najirshail was selling at Tk 55-Tk 57 a kg and the coarse varieties were retailing at Tk 44-Tk 48 a kg.
-With New Age input
