Dhaka, May 30 -- Heavy rainfall triggered by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday kept customers away from Shyampur's wholesale market in Dhaka. Due to the thin presence of buyers, local traders struggled to sell vegetables, leading to a steep fall in prices. Many sellers were forced to sell the perishable items at much lower rates to avoid spoilage, resulting in heavy losses. - FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam

Transactions at the city's kitchen markets were badly affected on Friday due to inclement weather with the prices of different varieties of spices and vegetables registering upward trends in the last few days.

On the other hand, prices of other essential items remained more or less stable in the last week, ending on Friday...