The price of wheat has gone down by Tk4-5 per kilogram as supply issues eased on the back of India resuming exports through the Hili land port in Dinajpur, reports UNB.
The traders said they bought wheat at Tk36-37 per kg on Saturday, which was Tk 40 -41 per kg last week.
Mustafijur Rahman, general secretary of the Hili land port export-import group, told UNB that the price of wheat decreased due to increased supply recently.
India imposed an embargo on wheat export to maintain supply of the food grains in their domestic market on May 13.
The wheat import allowed by India under the previous LCs since May 29 this year. The importers who opened LCs to import wheat through railway containers now have to import it by road due to some problems with the railway line, Mustafijur said.
The traders said the price of wheat increased to Tk1600 per maund, from Tk950 only before the Ukraine-Russia war. One maund equals more or less 40kg.
Bangladesh’s second staple is wheat and the annual consumption of these grains is nearly 8.5 million tonnes, which is increasing by 5 to 6 percent per year.
Until January of fiscal year 2021-22, India supplied 66 percent of the wheat Bangladesh imported. Of the rest, 15 percent was from Ukraine, 7 percent from Russia, 6 per cent from Canada, and 5 percent from Australia.
