Vegetable prices show increase

FE Team | Published: June 21, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

FE Report
Vegetable prices increased on Friday while chickpea, lentil, chicken meat reduced, traders said.
The garlic prices increased nearly by 15 per cent in the last seven days, traders of the city's kitchen markets said.
Chickpea prices increased sharply from the beginning of the current month, but it has now begun to decrease.
Finer quality chickpea was sold at Tk 55-58, which was Tk 65-68 per kg seven days back while normal variety was sold at Tk 44-46 per kg on the day against Tk 55-56 per kg.
Faisal Ahmed, a retailer at Nowabganjbazar in the city, said finer chickpeas variety price reduced to 1,940-1,960 per maund (37.32 kg) at Moulvibazar wholesale market on Friday from Tk2,240-2,260 per maund three days back.
He said normal quality chickpea was selling at Tk 1,650-1,670 per maund on the day, which was Tk 1,860-1,880 per maund two days back.
Haji Shafi, president of Moulvibazar Dal Baboshayee Samity, the biggest platform of the pulse traders in the country, said the price earlier increased slightly for few days at wholesale only for traffic congestion from Chittagong to Dhaka.
"We have enough stock now and I see no reason for high price," he said.
However, annual demand for chickpeas is now 0.18 million tonnes when the requirement for the month of Ramadan alone is 0.12 million tonnes, according to BDBS and Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) data.
With the declining hot temperature, production of poultry birds has been increasing which has helped cut the chicken meat price nearly by 7 per cent, retailers said.
Broiler was sold at Tk 150-155 per kg on Friday---a Tk10 per kg reduction in a week.
Pakistani variety prices also reduced by 10 per cent in a week, retailers said.
Prices of garlic were static for last one month but it began to increase from Friday.
Garlic (imported) was sold at Tk85-90 and Tk80-85 (local) per kg across the city kitchen markets on Friday---a 15.0 per cent hike in a week.
Ridge gourd, pointed gourd, sponge gourd, snake gourd, tomato, cucumber, okra prices increased by Tk5-6 per kg in last seven days.
"Rain in a few vegetable growing districts has caused price hike of some varieties," Ibrahim Mian, a retailer at Chapra Mashjid Bazar in Azimpur area, said.
Lentil price reduced slightly and was sold at Tk100-102 per kg (finer quality) on Friday against Tk106-108 per kg a week ago.
Prices of other major commodities including rice, fish, milk, salt, sugar, edible oil, flour, spices (excluding garlic), tea, etc were static on Friday compared with a week ago.