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Onion trucks waiting at various land ports in India were unable to enter Bangladesh until Monday evening. As a result, traders spend their days in uncertainty with a large quantity of onions.
Amid this uncertainty, the wagons that had been waiting at Ranaghat station for the past eight days with 185 racks of onions at noon on Monday left Ranaghat station as there was no solution on Monday. When asked where the racks would go to transport onions, an official from the Ranaghat Railway merchandise department said: “According to the rules, these racks for carrying onions will be delivered where they were reserved.” He said that this radak has assets worth about five and a half crore rupees in Indian currency.
Kartik Chakraborty, secretary of the Petrapole Import and Export Association, told BSS that most of the trucks have returned from five ports, including Ghojadanga, Petrapole and Hili Port. About 35 to 40 percent of the onions in this truck are damaged.
Gautam Lahiri, a senior journalist in Delhi, told BSS that the central government should have complied with the written request sent by the Bangladeshi government last Wednesday as a courtesy. Due to the excellent relationship of friendship and understanding between the two neighboring countries, the decision on the new LC is next. But at least the onions stuck in different ports should have been released. This decision by the central government in this regard will send the wrong message to the people of Bangladesh.
In this regard, Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Calcutta, Tawfiq Hasan, told BSS that most of the onion trucks have gone elsewhere from different land ports. Companies in both countries have suffered huge economic losses. “We have asked the Canadian government to release about 20,000 metric tons of stranded onion trucks in various ports,” he said. But even today no decision has been made about it. Many onions have already been wasted.
Tawfiq Hasan said: “We have learned that the Indian government has decided to increase the price of onion exports from now on.” Before, the price was 250 per 1000 kg, but now it has tripled to ৭ 650 for a new LC. As a result of this triple price increase, Bangladeshi onion traders will face another blow.
Source: Bass
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