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Harun Aur Rashid, chairman of the Healy Land Port Import and Export Group in Dinajpur, said “almost all” of the 11 onion trucks coming from India through that port had rotted on Saturday.
Mostafizur Rahman Nasim, general secretary of the C&F Agents Association of Bhomra Land Port in Satkhira, has also made the same accusation.
He said: “Most of the 31 onion trucks that passed through the land port of Bhomra on Saturday were destroyed. We are suffering financially as a result. “
According to traders, the 42 onion trucks arrived from India via the ports of Hili and Bhomra on Saturday.
To control its market, the Indian government announced on Monday a sudden halt to onion exports. After the announcement, Indian authorities also stopped onion trucks heading to Bangladesh at the border.
According to traders, more than 500 trucks from three land ports are trapped on the other side of the border with onions from the old LC for four days. As a result, onions rot in the sun and rain.
After that, some trucks entered Bangladesh on Saturday with Healy and Bhomra with a late export order at the special initiative of the Indian government, but no onions were able to pass through the land port of Benapole, traders said.
Haroon Aur Rashid said: “Onions come from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra in India. From there, the onion truck takes six days to reach Bangladesh. It can then be kept indoors for up to three days. Then it begins to rot.
“The LCed onion came out on September 8th. In 12 days 11 trucks of onions have been harvested. Then you can understand what the onion will be like. “
“More than 400 Indian trucks are stranded on the other side of the border waiting to pass through the port of Healy,” he said. I hope the tangle opens. Sunday is a weekly holiday in India. If you sit down and decide the matter on Monday, three more days. Then think about it.
“Both countries have business interests here. So I hope the high level will make a positive decision.
Truckloads of onions belonging to Monwar Chowdhury, a businessman from Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur, arrived in the country on Saturday.
He told bdnews24.com, “80 percent of my 128 tons of onions are rotten. More to come. Shipping to different places. If there is any money available. This onion will rot more to disappear, including Chittagong. It can be done. say that almost everything is rotten onion.
Importer Parimal Prasad, secretary general of Bogra Rajabazar Samiti, said it has an LC of 1,200 metric tons of open onions.
“Some trucks are stuck on the roads in India. I still don’t know what happened. But from experience, I think most of it is rotting. This hybrid variety onion cannot be kept for long. Once some of the onions in a sack rot, others start to rot quickly. “
“Long-term business. So you have to take onion even if it is rotten. In that case, there is talk of an agreement that both parties will have to bear the loss ”.
Hamim Reza, chief scientist at the Bangladesh Spice Research Center, said Indian onion “has no storage quality.”
He told bdnews24.com: “These imported onions from India are open pollinated varieties. This onion can be kept for a maximum of two weeks. These onions are not storage quality. And when it piles up, it starts to rot quickly. “
Meanwhile, when the onions started to rot, there were reports that they were unloaded from trucks and sold locally in India.
Traders said most of the Indian onions that arrived on Sunday after being stuck on the other side of Hili’s land port in Dinajpur for four days were rotten.
Mostafizur Rahman Nasim, General Secretary of the C&F Brokers Association of the Bhomra Land Port in Satkhira, said: “More than 200 trucks carrying onions remain stuck in the port of Ghojadanga in India. Some of these onions are making a comeback. And some onions are unloaded there and local traders sell them locally. “
Traders and port officials from the two ports said a total of 98 metric tons of onions reached 42 on Saturday.
President of the Import-Export Group of Healy Land Port. Haroon Aur Rashid said a total of 246 metric tons of onions arrived in 11 trucks on Saturday.
Mohsin Hossain, a revenue officer for the Bhomra land port, said 621 metric tons of onions arrived in 31 trucks.
Mostafizur Rahman Nasim, general secretary of the Land Port C&F Agents Association, said five more trucks of onions arrived through the land port of Bhomra on Sunday night.
Revenue official Mohsin Hossain said that in the past two days, a total of 36 trucks of Indian onions entered the Bhomra land port through the Bhomra land port.
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