Prices of daily commodities soar again
Noman Mosharef :
The daily essential products, especially eight common items-edible oil, sugar, egg, potato, onion, ginger, garlic and vegetable- price are soaring again in the market making huge pressure to low and middle income group people.
On the other hand, the price of chickens (broiler, sonali, popularly known as Pakistani cock), beef still remain high which was reached highest before the holy Eid.
Akramul Islam, a private employee, who used to buy daily essentials for whole month in once said kitchen market is seem a place of fear for middle income group people. They are regularly cutting the items from the list and remain most essential things. Still it is impossible to survive.
He continued middle class now start to sacrifice food quality leaving pricy food to cheap one. As a result the protein and vitamin are automatically remove from the food chart.
After visiting few kitchen markets in the capital it was seen that mentioned eight items are being sold at higher price. Of them edible oil and sugar price are skyrocketing.
Packet sugar is elusive from the retail markets. Loose is also rare in market. Within few days, the sugar price has increased Tk20 to Tk25 and now being sold at Tk140 to Tk145.
Traders blaming after the holy Eid they are not getting sugar from the companies. Company’s sales representatives received other products’ order except sugar.
On the other hand, Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners and Vanaspati Manufacturers Association on Thursday hiked the price soybean oil by Tk12 per litre and new price is Tk199.
Earlier, the price of per litre of bottled soybean oil was Tk187.
Meanwhile, the price of loose soybean oil has been fixed at Tk176 and the price of palm oil has been fixed at Tk135 per litre.
The price of five-litre bottles of soybean oil has been fixed at Tk960.
Moreover, the price of onion has increased by Tk20 to Tk30 per kilogram and now being sold at Tk50 to Tk60 while garlic (Chinese and local) price also gone up by Tk30 to Tk 20 and now being sold at Tk160 to Tk140 respectively.
The price of ginger also increased as local ginger is being sold at Tk200 to Tk220 and Chinese at Tk280 to Tk300 whereas few days ago these were sold at Tk 150 and Tk 250.
The chickens price did not decreased which was increased during Eid and now broiler chicken is being sold at Tk240 to Tk250 and sonali at Tk320 to Tk330. The egg is being sold at Tk 140 per dozen by increasing Tk10.
The price of potato, the mostly used vegetable in the Bengali kitchen, have also increased remarkably as per kg potato is being sold at Tk 140 whereas before Eid it was sold at Tk20 to Tk25.
Sohel, a customer from capital Karwan bazaar said we heard that the potato had produced huge. But it price has increased more considering other product. It’s all about the businessmen manipulation.
On the other hand, there is no good news from the vegetable market as almost all vegetables are selling at high price. It is hard to believe that papaya is being sold at Tk60.
The others-bitter gourd is being sold at Tk80 to Tk100, ladies finger at Tk60 to Tk70, drum stick at Tk120 to Tk140, brinjal at Tk60 to Tk140.
