Prices of vegetables mark significant rise

FE Report
Prices of vegetables increased on Friday compared with a week ago due to incessant rain in many parts of the country which affected farming, according to traders.
Prices of onion and chilli also increased significantly in a week.
Most of other commodities remained static, according to traders of key kitchen markets in the city.    
Prices of pointed gourd, brinjal, bitter gourd, teasle gourd, ridge gourd, papaya, radish, snake gourd, long bean, coriander leaf, increased by Tk10-15 per kg.
Bitter gourd (ustha) and long bean were selling at Tk65-70 and Tk80-90 per kg respectively on Friday while most of other vegetables were selling between Tk40-60 per kg.
Leaf vegetables prices also increased by Tk2-5 per bunch. Corriandar leaf price increased 250-300 per kg from Tk150-200 per kg a week back.
Even prices of clocasia crops, like eddo, clocasia stem, which grow well in rain, increased by Tk5-10 per kg in seven days.
Chilli prices, which showed a downtrend after the Eid, rose again to Tk80-90 per kg---a Tk20-25 hike in a week.  
Md Rahman, a retailer at Nowabganj Bazar said prices of most of vegetables increased nearly by Tk7-10 per kg at the wholesale in a week.
He said per palla (5 kg) chilli cost him Tk250 a week back which hiked to Tk345-350.
Haji Abudr Rahman , vice-president of Rayer Bazar Aratdar Baboshayi Samity, an association of wholesalers said that prices of vegetables increased due to short supply from vegetable growing-hubs like Comilla, Narshingdi, Jessore, Kishoreganj, Dohajari in Chittagong and elsewhere in the county.
When asked, he said though rainfall is much less in the northern districts but local traders hiked the prices.
Meanwhile, prices of onion increased by Tk8-10 per kg in last seven days.
Local onion was sold at Tk54-60 and imported at Tk45-48 per kg.  
According to the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), onion price is now higher than that of the month of Ramadan.
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