Staff Reporter

Prices of commodities have remained as same as in the previous week. Except some winter vegetables, the prices of rice, sugar, garlic, ginger and soybean oil remained high in the city’s kitchen market yesterday.
The prices of garlic and ginger are yet to come down to a tolerable level, as those soared a couple of months earlier.
Per kg of garlic was sold yesterday between Tk 105 and Tk 110 and ginger was sold between Tk 90 and Tk 95.
In January last year different varieties of garlic was sold between 26 and Tk 32 per kg while ginger was sold between Tk 40 and Tk 50 per kg, according to state owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB). [Read more]