Dhaka, Oct. 21 -- After failing to control market, the government has re-fixed the potato price at Tk 35 kg per kg for retail market. With this, the government was compelled to increase Tk 5 per kg to convince the traders.
The Department of Agricultural Marketing has directed retail traders to sale per kg potato at Tk 35 from Wednesday.
Earlier, the government had fixed potato prices at Tk 30 for retail markets but failed to control the market.
Meanwhile, the retailers were selling the item at Tk 50 to Tk 60 in different kitchen markets yesterday ignoring government's fixed price. In these circumstances, Department of Agricultural again stipulated prices of the potato in three stages.
"We have re-fixed prices of potatoes in three stages...