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| A Village Market Composition |
A VILLAGE MARKET
Every big village in Bangladesh has got a market. It is an
important place for the villagers. The villagers buy and sell the daily
necessaries of their life in the village market.
A Village market sits in an open place o the village. It generally
sits by the side o a rod or on the bank of a river or canal so that the villagers can come and go.
Village markets are of two kinds hats and bazaars. Bazaars
sit every day in the morning and break up at noon. Hats sit in the afternoon
once or twice a week and continue from
midday to the early part of the night.
Usually, a village market is divided into three sections of open
space, temporary shops, and permanent shops. Vegetables, milk, fish, fruit,
betel nut, etc are in the open space. This place is always crowded, people buy
their daily necessaries here. The grocers sit in the temporary shops. From the
grocers, people can buy oil, salt, onion, garlic, ginger, pulse, etc. In the
permanent shop's cloth, shoes, wheat, rice, flour, ghee, spices, and different
stationery items are the tailors’ shops and the tailors are busy cutting and
sewing. On hat days one or two cows and goats are slaughtered and people buy
meat. People can also have flows, hens ducks, etc. Cattle are sold in some big markets. There are also
tea stalls and the shop's barbers.
A village market has demerits also. There is no fixed price for any of the items.
Customers may be cheated at any time. The village market is not clean. There is
no public sweeper to clean the rubbish and filth. Besides, sometimes haggling
leads to quarrels. Sometimes, shopkeepers are also oppressed by the local
masters and criminals.
In spite of the demerits, a village is very useful and
important in the life of the villagers. Here they meet their kith and variety
of people. The villagers sell their surplus and buy their daily necessaries. It
saves time and money for the villagers.
