Prices of rice, vegetables, egg at down trend

Staff Reporter :
Prices of rice, vegetables and eggs in the capital are showing down trend giving relief in the daily life of the people.
The price of coarse rice has decreased by Tk 5 per kg, while the price of fine rice remained still high.
Sukkur Ali, Proprietor of Bikrampur Chal bander from Rampura said the coarse rice of Aman has reached the market which has impacted its price.
He said ‘Sworna’ rice was sold at Tk 50 per kg few days ago. It is now being sold at Tk 48. And ‘Pijam’s was selling at Tk 58 to Tk 60 and coming down to Tk 55 to Tk 57.
Sukkur Ali further said if nothing happens in supply, then the coarse rice price will be reduced more.
But the prices of coarse flour, sugar and edible oil are not yet within purchasing capacity.
None knows when these food items will return to the past.
 Prices of vegetables including cauliflower, beans, cabbage, radish, brinjal, green pepper, papaya, and potato have gone down by Tk 5 to Tk 15 per kg over the week.
Early varieties of beans, which were sold at Tk 200 per kg, are now being sold at Tk40 per kg. A price of green chili, which was Tk 200 per kg a couple of months ago, is now Tk40 per kg. Prices of leafy vegetables including spinach in the Karwan Bazar and Moghbazar kitchen markets have also dropped to Tk 5 from Tk15 per bundle.
Visiting the markets in the capital on Friday, it was seen that the supply of winter vegetables has increased.
In Karwan Bazar, brinjal is being sold at Tk25 to Tk35, beans at Tk35 to Tk40, green chilli at Tk40 to Tk50, radish at Tk35, new variety of potato at Tk30, carrot at Tk50 and bitter gourd at Tk30.
Mohammad Mosharraf, a vegetable seller at Kalyanpur Bazar, said that the price of vegetables has decreased, but the sales are not satisfectory.
Mohammad Rubel Hossain, a vegetable seller at Karwan Bazar, said while the prices of vegetables have decreased, the prices of other daily necessities have not.
Vegetables yield during the winter season has been reportedly high in Rangpur, Bogura, Dinajpur, Munshiganj, Pabna, Jashore, Jamalpur, Narsingdi, Jhenaidah and Rajshahi. As a result, most markets now have an ample supply of winter vegetables including cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, radish, turnip, beans, tomato, onion leaves, gourd, broccoli, beans, carrot and coriander.
Ali Hossain, a salesman of Yasin General Store, Karwan Bazar, said, price of aromatic rice has increased by Tk6 per kg.
“We are buying at a wholesale price of Tk132, which was Tk128. We are new selling at Tk134 only,” he said.
In his shop, small grain lentils are priced at Tk140 per kg, packed 2 Kg flour at Tk145 and bottled soybean oil at Tk192 per litre whereas the government has decreased Tk 5 per litter.
The price of rice in Karwan bazar is still high. Paijam variety is being sold at Tk55 to 56 per kg, BR Atash at Tk55 to 58, Miniket at Tk70 to 72.
Mohammad Roni, a rice seller at Karwan Bazar, said that although it is the season of rice, the price has not decreased.
“If the mill owners do not reduce the price, the price of rice will not come down,” he said.
In the meat market, beef is selling at Tk680 to Tk700 while red meat is Tk900-1,000. The price of broiler chicken is Tk150 per kg while Pakistani variety of chicken is Tk260 per kg and per dozen egg is Tk 115, Walking fish Tk 900 per Kilo,Pabda at Tk 350 and Boal Machh at Tk 1100 per Kg.