Onions, vegetables prices keep rising
The prices of onions and summer vegetables have been soaring on the capital鈥簊 kitchen markets over the week ending Friday.
The prices of onions and summer vegetables have been soaring on the capital鈥簊 kitchen markets over the week ending Friday.
Rice prices in Japan last month were almost twice what they were a year earlier, official data showed Friday, as core inflation accelerated in the world鈥檚 number four economy.
The country鈥檚 poultry farmers has announced that they would shut down country-wide production of chicken and eggs from May 1, as the sector fell under the grip of corporate syndicates.
The prices of almost all essential commodities, notably onions and summer vegetables, have risen on the capital鈥檚 kitchen markets over the week ending Friday.
Although vegetable prices remained relatively low throughout the month of Ramadan, the capital鈥檚 kitchen markets have suddenly heated up in the post-Eid period.
The government on Tuesday increased the price of edible oil by up to Tk聽14 a litre, setting the rate for packaged soya bean oil at Tk 189 a litre, while the prices of both unpackaged soya bean oil and palm oil were set at Tk 169 a litre.
The poultry prices in the capital鈥檚 kitchen markets declined after Eid-ul-Fitr, while beef and mutton prices remained stable.
Another consignment of 10,850 tonnes of Indian parboiled rice arrived at the country鈥檚 premier seaport, Chattogram Port on Thursday...
The government of India has withdrawn 20 per cent duty on onion export, effective from April 1, 2025.
A cargo vessel arrived at Chittagong Port from Vietnam carrying 29,000 tonnes of rice on Saturday....
The regional food controller鈥檚 office in Rajshahi on Tuesday recommended the food ministry to take punitive action against 913 rice mills in the Rajshahi division for not providing rice to the government as per agreement.