Staff Reporter:
State Minister for Commerce Ahasanul Islam Titu yesterday said that the retail price of edible oil will be Tk 163 per litre in the retail market.
He said this to reporters after a program organized by women entrepreneurs at the Bangabandhu Interna-tional Conference Centre (BICC) in Dhaka’s Agargaon on Saturday.
The state minister said that 50000 tonnes of onion will come from India this week. As a result, the prices of onions will be under control in the market. Apart from this, in the next two days, edible oil will be sold at the rate of Tk 163 per liter in the retail market.
He said that he had a bilateral discussion with India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal during the thir-teenth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emir-ates.
There, India’s commerce minister said that he had ordered to issue a letter to send 50,000 tonnes of onion to Bangladesh. They received that letter yesterday. The state minister for commerce said that onions will come to the country from this week.
The government has taken the initiative to reduce the prices of certain types of dates in the market by giving duty exemptions.
The state minister said, there are at least 10 types of dates in the market. Among these, an initiative has been taken to reduce the price of Zaidi dates, which come in sacks.
