TCB drive afoot to keep Ramadan market cool

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will build an enough advance stock of five Ramadan essentials in an effort to help ensure smooth supply of those items during the fasting month beginning in July next, said officials on Saturday.
The five items are edible oil, sugar and lentil, gram/chickpea and date the demand of which skyrockets during Ramadan because of their high consumption, knocking up the prices.
Though the officials would not say anything about the stock quantity right now, they said that the TCB dealers will get the uninterrupted supply of the essentials as per their requirement during the holy month.
“There had been no problem over the last two years. There’ll be no problem this year, too,” TCB Chairman Brig Gen Sarwar Jahan Talukdar said, according to UNB.