The shortage of soya bean oil is ongoing in the Dhaka city stores as of Friday, although the commerce adviser assured that the edible oil shortage problem would be solved shortly.
During the visits from the Old Town to Banglamotor area of the capital, the 抖阴精品 correspondent observed that general stores were still facing shortages.
Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Monday in the past week said that the supply of edible oil would normalise within two days.
A retailer in Katabon said that among the companies, only Meghna and Tk Group were supplying soya bean oil in that area, however, the supply amount of the item was inadequate.
A major edible oil supplier in the country, City Group, was supplying only canola oil to the stores during the past week, according to retailers.
Additionally, essential commodities, including rice, vegetables and chicken, continued to maintain high prices in Dhaka鈥檚 kitchen markets on the first weekend in Ramadan, the fasting month of the Muslims.
Earlier on February 12, the adviser made a similar promise that also remained unfulfilled.
The ongoing shortage has driven up the price of unpackaged soya bean oil, now selling at Tk 180-210 per liter, compared with the Tk 165 previous rate in January.
Rice prices ranged from Tk聽55-100 per kg, with coarse and medium-quality rice available at Tk 55-65, while fine Miniket rice sold at Tk 75-85.
Prices of different varieties of Miniket rice have risen by Tk 2-5 per kg in the past week.
Lemons, a key Ramadan item, saw a steep price hike, selling at Tk 80-100 per hali, nearly three times the price from January 31, when it was Tk 30-32 per hali.
Chickpeas were priced at Tk 105-110 per kg, down from Tk 130-140 in January.
Broiler chicken prices increased to Tk 210-220 per kg from Tk 190-210 in late January, and Sonalika chicken was selling at Tk 320-330 per kg.
Vegetable prices have also surged since late January.
Aubergine was selling at Tk 80-100 per kg, increasing by Tk 20-40 in the past one week. Okra sold at Tk聽80 per kilogram, beans sold at Tk聽35-40 a kilogram, radish TK聽25-30 a kilogram, cucumber Tk 45-50 a kilogram and tomato Tk聽40 a kilogram.
Red lentil prices surged before Ramadan, and maintained its high price with the coarse variety selling at Tk 120-125 per kg, the medium variety at Tk 130, and the fine variety at Tk 135-140.
Prices of onions maintained a steady pace, with the local variety selling at Tk 48-55 per kg.
Egg prices also remained the same in the past week, selling at Tk 42-46 per hali.
