Daily essentials price hike: Bangladesh made gains in food production and ensured the availability of rice in recent years. But surging inflation, erratic weather, and the Russia-Ukraine war affected the availability of cereals and reduced low-income people's access to food this year.
The recent hike in diesel price increased truck fares by 22-25 percent, leading to rice, vegetables and some essentials to become dearer in the capital.
Bangladesh's recent cut in import duty of non-basmati rice has pushed up prices of the grain in India's domestic markets by ten percent in the last five days, and is causing a rush among Indian exporters to go for deals with the neighbouring country.