Chickens, pulses and garlic became pricier again last week, raising sufferings of the commoners further.
Vegetable, potato, edible oil, and sugar remained static maintaining their previous highs while newly harvested onion showed a slight fall, market sources said.
Broiler chicken further increased to Tk 190-210 a kg depending on markets, marking Tk 10 a kg further hike in a week and Tk 40 a kg in the last two and half weeks, according to the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).
Pakistani or Sonali chicken witnessed Tk 30-40 a kg hike at retails and was selling at Tk 340-360 a kg on Thursday.
Helal Uddin, a chicken vendor in the East Rayerbazar area, said prices of the item increased gradually in the last three weeks.
He said the price dropped below Tk 160 a kg in Mid-November 2023 and started increasing again from the last week of the same month as was still continuing.
President of Bangladesh Poultry Association Sumon Hawladar said the rocketing prices of day-old-chicks (DOCs) and feeds have forced the farmers to raise prices to some extent.
Despite the surge, they hardly could make profits as DOC's prices shot up to Tk 70-78 a bird.
He said the feed is available at Tk 65 a kg minimum. Production cost of per kg meat reached above Tk 170 a kg and farmers are hardly making Tk 2.0-3.0 a kg. However, egg prices maintained their previous highs of Tk 130-140 a dozen.
The prices of lentil of all quality further increased by Tk 10 a kg as coarse variety was sold at Tk 110-120, medium Tk 120-125 and finer at Tk 150-160 a kg.
Anchor pulses (a kind of Australian green pea, popular among commoners and in restaurants) also showed a hike by Tk 10 a kg and sold at Tk 75-80 a kg. Garlic prices witnessed a Tk 20 a kg hike further as the imported varieties were retailed at Tk 260-300 a kg.
Meanwhile, vegetable and potato maintained a high trend during this harvesting season.
A piece of cauliflower or cabbage was retailed at Tk 50-60, tomato Tk 80-100 a kg, carrot Tk 60-80 a kg, country bean Tk 60-80 a kg, long-yard bean Tk 90-110 a kg, brinjal Tk 70-90 a kg on Thursday, according to kitchen market sources.
Potato was retailed at Tk 60-70 a kg while onion showed a Tk 10 decline as retailed at Tk 90-110 (local) a kg and Tk 120-130 a kg (imported) on the day. Bottled soybean oil prices were earlier raised by the refiners in the last week of November by Tk 4.0-5.0 a litre. It was retailed at Tk 173-174 a bottle on Thursday.
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