Prices of chicken, fish rise in Dhaka's kitchen markets
Traders at Karwan Bazar, the capital’s largest vegetable hub, attribute the rising costs to higher demand during Ramadan, despite an adequate supply of most items
Highlights:
- Prices of chicken, fish and some vegetables saw an upward trend in Dhaka's kitchen markets today
- This was despite the govt's repeated assurances of market stability during Ramadan
- Lemon and cucumber prices remained as high as the day before today
- Beef prices remained unchanged
- Traders at Karwan Bazar attribute the rising costs to higher demand during Ramadan
Prices of chicken, fish, and certain vegetables saw an upward trend in Dhaka's kitchen markets today (3 March), despite the government's repeated assurances of market stability during Ramadan.
Traders at Karwan Bazar, the capital's largest vegetable hub, attribute the rising costs to higher demand during Ramadan, despite an adequate supply of most items.
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Rahim Sarder, a vegetable wholesaler at Karwan Bazar, told UNB that lemon and cucumber prices are expected to decrease gradually as supply improves. He also mentioned that newly arrived vegetables are selling at slightly higher prices, though the prices of brinjal (aubergine) and tomatoes showed a slight decline compared to the last two days.
Lemon and cucumber prices remained as high as the day before today. Meanwhile, chicken and mutton prices edged up, though beef prices remained unchanged.
Aubergine was selling at Tk70-110 per kg, long aubergine at Tk60-80 per kg, green chilli at Tk60-70 per kg depending on quality, beans at Tk60 per kg, tomatoes at Tk30-35 per kg, carrots at Tk35-40 per kg, potatoes at Tk20-30 per kg, bitter gourd at Tk100-120 per kg, okra at Tk80-90 per kg, cucumber at Tk60-80 per kg, sponge gourd at Tk80 per kg, arum at Tk80-90 per kg, radish at Tk60 per kg, green papaya at Tk50-60 per kg, french beans at Tk100-120 per kg, and snake gourd at Tk50-60 per kg.
The local variety of onions was selling at Tk40-50 per kg, while imported onions were priced at Tk35-45 per kg. The price of imported garlic also increased, selling at Tk240 per kg, while local garlic was at Tk160 per kg. Locally produced ginger was priced at Tk160 per kg, while the imported variety was at Tk130-140 per kg.
The price of red lentils remained high, with the fine variety selling at Tk150 per kg, while the imported coarse variety was selling at Tk110 per kg.
Fish prices have risen by Tk20-50 per kg. Among the varieties, Puti was selling at Tk400 per kg, live puti at Tk500 per kg, mola at Tk500 per kg, cultivated koi at Tk220-250 per kg, fali chanda (Rupchanda) at Tk1,200 per kg, small chanda at Tk400 per kg, walking fish (Shoal) at Tk500-600 per kg, eel at Tk700-900 per kg, meni at Tk500 per kg, sheat (Boal) at Tk600-1,200 per kg, ek-thota (Kaitta fish) at Tk600-650 per kg, coral fish at Tk600-700 per kg depending on size, river pangas at Tk500 per kg, cultivated pangas at Tk150-220 per kg, rajputi at Tk450 per kg, tilapia at Tk240 per kg, and ruhi at Tk350-400 per kg.
Beef is selling for Tk750-780 per kg, while mutton is priced at Tk1,150-1,200 per kg.
A medium-sized local chicken (cock) was selling at Tk500-600 per piece, while hens were priced at Tk450-500 per piece. The price of broiler chicken stood at Tk190-220 per kg.
