Customers are struggling to buy vegetables and other daily essentials as the increased price is beyond their capacity to purchase.
The prices of various vegetables, fish, meat and other daily products were found to be high at the kitchen market in the capital's Mirpur-1 on Friday.
Vegetable seller Md Saddam Hossain said, long eggplant is Tk60, round eggplant is Tk70, potol (pointed gourd) Tk60-100, carrot Tk50, radish Tk50, cucumber Tk80, coriander Tk100 per kg, green chili Tk120 per kg, tomato Tk30 taka per kg, sojne data Tk100 and lemon per hali (four pieces) Tk40.
Md Rashed, who came to the market, said: “The price of vegetables is not in our hands, there is nothing to do. We have to buy and eat at the price they give. And on Friday, the price is higher than other days.”
Md Habibullah said: “The price of all vegetables in the market is high. I bought sojne for Tk100 per kg. Apart from this, potatoes are Tk28-30 per kg, onions Tk35-40, local ginger Tk150 and Chinese ginger Tk200, and garlic Tk110-140.”
Besides, chickpeas costs Tk85, thin lentil Tk130, thick lentil Tk95, sugar Tk112 taka, and besan Tk110.
Salim Hossain, the seller of Salim General Store, said: “The price of onion is increasing again. I bought it for Tk35 per kg, I have to sell it for Tk40.”
Among meat and fish, beef is Tk750, broiler chicken Tk185-220 per kg depending on size, cock chicken Tk330 per kg, Catla fish Tk800 per kg, Rui fish Tk500 per kg, Ilish fish 1.5kg weight Tk2,200 per kg and 700 grams weighing Tk1200 per kg, and river prawns Tk700-1000 per kg depending on size.”
Shrimp and fish seller Sunil said that if more fish were caught, the price would be lower. Since the river prawns were caught less, so the price was higher.
Rommel, who came to buy fish, said with regret that the price of fish is the same as it was a month ago. Since people have to eat so there was nothing to do.