Consumers feel the pinch of rising chicken and rice prices

Prices of chicken will cool off in October-November when harvesting of soyabean, a key ingredient for animal feed, starts. At present, chicken is commanding a price of Rs 240 per kg. Rice prices, which had cooled off a bit, have again shot up by 9 per cent in the last two weeks as the news spread that Bangladesh will import rice to meet its domestic demand and will buy it from private traders.