The Department of Agricultural Marketing under the Ministry of Agriculture is selling essential commodities, including agricultural products, at subsidised prices through OMS programme at a total of 45 points in Dhaka, Khulna and Chittagong cities.
The present interim government launched OMS programme for low income people initially on October 15 at 20 points in the capital city. Later, the government has taken steps to sell essential goods at 10 more points on October 18 in city鈥檚 area.
The government decided to extend the OMS programme to Khulna and Chittagong after getting huge response from the low-income people to the programme in Dhaka.
Later, the Department of Agricultural Marketing launched the OMS programme at five points in Chittagong on October 22 and later, at another five points on October 27.
In Khulna, the government opened OMS programme at five places on October 28.
Director general of the Department of Agricultural Marketing Md Masud Karim told BSS that the government had taken steps to sell different items, including eggs, potatoes, onions, papayas, green chillies at subsidised price in different markets to reduce people鈥檚 economic hardship.
The Department of Agricultural Marketing is selling eggs at Tk 110 a dozen, potato at Tk 30 a kilogram, onion at Tk 70 a kilogram, green papaya at Tk 15 a kilogram, potal at Tk 30 a kilogram, corolla at Tk 40 a kilogram, cucumber at Tk 15 a kilogram and gourd at Tk 20 per piece.
The prices of essential agricultural products witnessed a rise due to the recent floods that damaged a lot of vegetable farm lands in 13 districts, leading to less supply causing sharp rise in price of vegetables, said the Department of Agricultural Marketing.