Prices of beef, chicken, mutton, egg, fish up

FE Team | Published: June 13, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

FE Report
Maintaining the rising trend, prices of beef, chicken, mutton, egg, fish and pulses increased further on Friday compared to that of its previous level.
Broiler chicken prices reached Tk 170-175 per kg while layer chicken was traded at Tk 190-195 per kg on Friday.
Beef was sold at Tk 390-420 per kg, buffalo meat at Tk 370-380, mutton at Tk 590-620, sheep meat at Tk 550-560 registering Tk 10 to 20 increase in different markets in a week.
Md Motaher Ali, a meat seller at Hazaribagh Bazar told the FE that prices of cow is much higher this year following a decline in import from India.
He said prices of both local and imported cow is 15-20 per cent higher now compared to a year back.
He said prices of meat might increase to 450-460 per kg with the beginning of the Ramadan next week when demand would jump by two times.
However, according to the latest data of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) and Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) prices of beef is nearly 33 per cent higher now compared to the corresponding period of last year.
The data showed mutton prices rose 24 per cent and chicken 10-15 per cent.
Data also showed prices of Hilsa is 31 per cent costlier now than a year ago.
Prices of other indigenous fish prices rose 25-30 per cent against that of last year.
However, prices of pulses including lentil, chickpea, motar (broken chickpea) are also 10-11 per cent higher now against the corresponding period of last year.
The data also showed prices of some other key items for the Ramadan including onion, date and few spices registered 10-25 per cent rise against a year back.
However, prices of ginger, garlic which showed a downtrend last week increased again on Friday by Tk10-20 per kg.
Prices of most of other commodities including vegetable, potato, sugar, flour, edible oil remained static on Friday.
Meanwhile, consumers' costs for protein items rose 15-33 per cent this year ahead of the upcoming holy month of Ramadan compared to that of last year, government data revealed.
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