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Barisal: Onions are sold at higher prices in southern markets and throughout the country. Buyers are excited to buy onions at high prices.
However, the administration’s market monitoring team said there were no significant differences in the import and sale prices of onions.
According to traders, onion exports to India have suddenly stopped and traders from Dhaka have bought most of their onions from Faridpur. As a result, the price of onion has risen in the Barisal market overnight.
Depending on the type and import price, domestic onions, which were selling at 55 Tk per kg in the city’s onion belt on Monday at noon, are sold at 65 to 75 Tk on Wednesday. The Indian onions, which were sold at Rs 44 to Rs 48, will be sold at Rs 75 to Rs 8 on Wednesday.
Payal Enterprise, owner of the city’s onion shop. Enayet Hossain said that the onions were imported from other districts in the Barisal wholesale market. Onions are sold in the Barisal market by calculating transport and labor costs along with the price at which they are bought there. Nobody stays extra. And if the price goes up in the main place, they don’t have to do anything.
Another wholesaler named Sultan Talukder said demand for onion has increased in the Barisal wholesale market on news of the price increase.
According to him, the onion strip workers say that he needs 1 kg of onion and that he is buying 5 to 10 kg of onion on the news of the price increase. Someone else also takes a 50 kg bag. This is causing a crisis in the wholesale market overnight. As a result, traders are asking for more onions than ever before to keep the wholesale market afloat. As a result, onion prices are rising in the main wholesale market.
Dulal Mollah, general secretary of the Barisal Onion Shopkeepers Association, said the price increase was due to the onion crisis.
Meanwhile, the price of onion has also increased in both the retail market and the wholesale market. Unscrupulous traders are selling previously harvested onions at higher prices as the monitoring system has not yet been strengthened. Onions are sold at a maximum of Rs 100 per kg on the retail market.
Retailer Sunam Mia said shoppers had bought onions in the past two days on news of the price hike. Those who used to buy half a kg to 1 kg of onion have now bought 3-5 kg of onion.
Rafiq, a retailer, said it was not picking new onions even after the onions were out of stock in the store due to high prices in the wholesale market. According to him, if the demand for onion decreases at the consumer level, the price of this perishable product will fall. So don’t buy new onions from the store without seeing another 2/1 days.
Nirupam Majumder, executive magistrate of the district administration, carried out the operation at 11:30 am on Wednesday (September 18) as part of the market monitoring activities in the city of Piyazpatti. After inspecting several warehouses during the operation, he told reporters that the onions were selling for Rs 3-5 more than the price at which they were imported on the market. As for the market, there was no image of abnormal prices in onion sales.
He said that monitoring activities will continue under the direction of Deputy Commissioner SM Aziar Rahman. In addition to the wholesale trade, follow-up activities will also take place in the retail market. If someone wants to destabilize the market, the corresponding legal action will be taken against him.
On the other hand, TCB sources said that as of September 13, TCB began to sell onion, sugar, lentils and soybean oil in two trucks in each district headquarters, one in upazila and five in the metropolis according to the instructions of government. Where the onions are sold for 30 rupees. Again, they have to buy the prescribed amount per person.
Bangladesh: Country time: 1825 hours, September 18, 2020
MS / MJF
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