{"id":104433,"date":"2026-03-17T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=104433"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:40:26","slug":"edible-oil-prices-on-rise-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/edible-oil-prices-on-rise-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible oil prices on rise in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Despite a decline in global prices, edible oil prices in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/hussain-talat-injury-scare-sends-pakistan-all-rounder-to-hospital-during-bangladesh-odi\/\">Bangladesh<\/a> are on the rise, raising concerns among consumers ahead of Eid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Traders say the price hike is due to a shortage of supplies, but officials say the country has ample reserves and several ships loaded with oil are being unloaded at Chittagong port.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commerce Ministry, Bangladesh\u2019s crude and refined soybean and palm oil stocks stood at over 236,000 tonnes last week, with more shipments arriving regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Seven ships carrying around 314,000 tonnes of edible oil are currently docked at Chittagong port and deliveries are expected to be completed soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, wholesale prices in Khatungganj, the country\u2019s largest commodity market, have seen a rise of 13 to 16 taka per litre during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to traders, sometimes prices are changing several times in a single day, which is being attributed to limited supply from mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Despite a decline in global prices, edible oil prices in Bangladesh are on the rise, raising concerns among consumers ahead of Eid. &nbsp; Traders say the price hike is due to a shortage of supplies, but officials say the country has ample reserves and several ships loaded with oil are being unloaded at Chittagong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":100454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104434,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104433\/revisions\/104434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}