Citizens' cost for vegetables has increased with the falling supply of winter crops, according to the traders and consumers.
Apart from the massive price hike of meat and fish, prices of vegetables have increased significantly in last two week, according to key kitchen markets.
Md Abu Zaman, a stationery shop owner told the FE at the Palashi Bazar in the city that he bought a cabbage at Tk35 on Friday which was Tk20 a week back.
Zaman said prices of newly arrived summer vegetables are much higher.
"I bought pointed gourd at Tk50 and bitter gourd at Tk60 a kg today. You can't find a single summer vegetable at below Tk50 per kg," he said.
Md Alamin, a vegetable vendor at Banalata Kitchen Market in Newmarket area told the FE that the winter crop season has almost come to an end.
Supply of the crops like cabbage, cauliflower, small bean, lemon has been reducing while summer vegetables are being replaced.
He said prices of summer vegetables are higher at the growers' end.
Md Abdul Latif, president of Karwan Bazar Kanchamal Aratdar Baboshayee Samity, an association of vegetable wholesalers in the capital, said that increase in transportation cost is key responsible for higher prices of vegetable.
He said the consumers could get vegetables at much lower rate if the transportation cost would have been normal.
He said supply has almost been normal despite the blockades but the transportation cost is still higher.
He said fare of a truck loaded with vegetables (14-15 tonnes) from Bogra is now Tk23000-25000 which was Tk11000-12000 in the pre-blockade periods.
Prices of beef and mutton were still higher and sold at Tk370-380 and Tk550-560 per kg respectively.
Chicken meat prices also showed a uptrend as broiler bird sold at Tk160-165 per kg on the day.
However, prices of onion and garlic have declined by Tk2 and Tk10 per kg respectively in last seven days.
Most of other commodities' prices remained static on the day.
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