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Furthermore, the Agricultural Marketing Department set the price of potatoes again on Tuesday at 28 Tk per kg in cold rooms and 30 Tk per kg in wholesale.
Potato prices have been re-determined after a meeting with concerned ministries and potato traders from the Department of Agricultural Marketing, according to a press release from the department.
After the abnormal increase in the market price of potatoes, on October 6, the Agricultural Marketing Department had set the price of potatoes at 23 rupees per kg in cold stores, 25 rupees wholesale and 30 rupees at retail .
But no one sold potatoes at that price. It costs 50 rupees to buy a kilo of potatoes.
TCB sells potatoes at Tk 25
Potatoes are not yet adjusted to government prices
Rupee 50 Potato ‘Nakal’ Consumer
The meeting asked the Deputy Commissioners (DC) to take the necessary steps to ensure that potatoes are sold at all levels at that price by setting new prices.
The meeting was chaired by the Director General of the Department of Agricultural Marketing, Mohammad Yusuf, and attended by officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission, National Department of Consumer Rights Protection, Storage Association in Bangladesh Cold, Karwan Bazar and Shyambazar potato wholesalers and retailers.
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