Last week in Bangladesh, the prices of key vegetables and spices such as onions, ginger, cumin seeds, green chilies, brinjal, pointed gourd, bitter gourd, and coriander leaf saw significant increases, reaching record highs in some cases. Onions are now selling for Tk 75-85 per kilogram, ginger for Tk 320-400 per kilogram, cumin seeds for Tk 840-900 per kilogram, and coriander leaf for Tk 450 per kilogram. The price of ginger has surged by 60 percent in just one month and is over 195 percent higher than last year, according to the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh.