VegetablesMost vegetables sold for Tk 80-120 a kg at Rai Saheb Bazar on Sunday, eggs topped Tk 150 a dozen and small rui fetched Tk 360-400; many shoppers wander until late morning, when prices dip.
VegetablesA weekly market update from Agricultural Market Trends finds tight supply lifting tomato and potato prices, while onions, still 264% dearer than a year ago, may soon ease.
Bogura farmers sell pointed gourd and cucumber at Tk 30 a kilo while the same vegetables fetch Tk 50-60 ten kilometres away, and the diesel-driven rise in freight adds well under a taka a kilo.
At Chattogram's Bahaddarhat kitchen market vegetables rose by an average Tk 10 a kg and fish by Tk 20 in a week, with broiler chicken now Tk 180-190 a kg.
After diesel rose by Tk 20 a litre, truck fares went up and Dhaka's retail vegetables gained Tk 10-20 a kilogram in two days, with eggs up Tk 5 a dozen.
A Saturday round of Kaptan, Nawabganj, Islambagh and Lalbagh bazars found rice, lentils, broiler, eggs, farmed fish and vegetables at the same high prices; broiler and eggs unchanged for six weeks, chinigura and atap rice up from Tk 90-100 to Tk 170-200 in three months.
For 15 years farmers in Bakhera Komolgari village of Khetlal upazila have sold 250-300 maunds of bitter gourd a day to wholesalers under a tarpaulin shed by the mosque, skipping the twice-weekly haat three kilometres away.
The average mandi price of onion reached Rs 3,736.61 a quintal on 15 September 2026 against Rs 946.60 a year earlier, up nearly 295% and 54% above mid-August, while potato at Rs 789.80 is 26% below last year and tomato at Rs 1,692.44 is 21% higher than a year ago but 12% off its 1 September peak.
Thin arrivals at the wholesale yards lifted almost every vegetable at Kazir Dewri, Pahartali and Nayabazar; local hilsa sells for Tk 3,000 a kilo while Indian hilsa goes for Tk 1,800 and Myanmar's Tk 2,200; local chicken up to Tk 650, eggs, meat and spices unchanged.
Green chilli rose from Tk 120 to Tk 160 and yardlong bean from Tk 80 to Tk 120 a kilogram in Chattogram's kitchen markets in a week, while sellers blamed flood, heavy rain and heat losses on poultry farms for eggs and broiler refusing to come down.
Every vegetable in the capital's kitchen markets cost Tk 10 to 30 more per kilogram than a week earlier on Friday, while higher landings pulled hilsa down and all grades of chicken were cheaper.
At the Taltola and Agargaon markets on Friday, brinjal sold for Tk 100-140, tomato Tk 120-140 and bitter gourd Tk 60-80 a kilo; broiler eased Tk 10 to Tk 180, and a one-kilogram hilsa cost Tk 2,700-2,800.
CropsContinuous rain in July 2026 flooded 417 hectares of vegetables, jute and Aman seedbeds in Bogura, affecting 4,961 farmers, while most vegetable prices in the town's markets rose within a week.
