Dhaka, March 17 -- Prices of 29 key essentials maintain previous highs as the Department of Agricultural Marketing apparently ducked enforcement after fixing their rates on Friday amid market waywardness.

The department set logical prices of those products, including meat, fish, chickens, eggs, spices and vegetables, under provision of the section 4 (i) of the Agricultural Marketing Act 2018 in government bid to come to grips with price rises.

But, visiting six markets Sunday in the capital city, Dhaka, the FE correspondent found no traces of any DAM officials in Hatirpool, Polashi, Anandabazar, Rayerbazar, Karwan Bazar and Nawabganj Bazar precincts.

At Hatirpoool Bazar, traders hung price for beef at Tk 750 a kg while the DAM-set MRP ...