FE Report
Vegetable prices increased while onion prices witnessed further reduction on Friday compared to that of the previous week.
Lentil and loose soybean prices increased slightly during the period, rice prices maintained higher trend while other commodity prices were stable, traders said.
Prices of many of the vegetables including cauliflower, cabbage, bottle gourd, pumpkin, green banana, turnip, papaya, chick pea, bean, leaf vegetable etc increased this week--- by Tk3-5 at per kg, per piece or at per bunch compared to that of last week.
A cauliflower was sold at Tk20-25 per piece which was priced between Tk15-20 last week, retailers at key kitchen markets in the capital said. Prices of brinjal, potato, carrot, tomato, cucumber (khiroi variety), chilli prices were stagnant on the day.
Bitter gourd (ustha variety) price witnessed a massive rise as per kg was sold at Tk70-80---a Tk20-25 increase at per kg compared to that of last week.
"Excluding potato, prices of all the produces increased at farm level which forced traders to raise prices a little bit," Balaram Sarker, a wholesaler at Rayer Bazar in the city said.
"Per kg papaya costs us Tk7-8 last week which has increased to Tk10-11 this week," he said. Onion prices came down by Tk3-4 at per kg this week and were sold at Tk24-25 (imported) and Tk25-26 (local), traders said.
Rice prices maintained a higher trend as coarse rice Swarna varieties were sold at Tk35-36 per, Brridhan-28 varieties at Tk40-42 per kg, Miniket at Tk44-50 per kg on the day. Following increase in prices of bottled soybean, loose soybean prices also increased.
Per litre was sold at Tk 108-110 this week which was Tk106-108 last week. Prices of lentil were Tk118-120 (Nepalese) and Tk106-108 (local) per kg-Tk6-8 increase at per kg compared to that of last week.
