, Nov. 19 -- Despite the plenty supply of vegetables with the arrival of winter, retail prices of most vegetables in Khulna's kitchen markets continue to rise, adding pressure on household budgets already strained by increased fish and potato prices.

Only a few staples, including green chillies, onions and meat, have remained stable, while egg prices have slightly fallen.

Visiting the city's Moylapota and New Market kitchen markets on Tuesday the correspondent found that several winter vegetables are selling at higher prices compared to last week.

Eggplant is selling at Tk 120 per kg, yardlong beans at Tk 80, cabbage at Tk 60, radish at Tk 50, cauliflower at Tk 100, beans at Tk 120, bitter gourd at Tk 100, , papaya at Tk 40, snake gour...