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In the past week, trucks carrying onions across the Indian border were heading towards Bangladesh, but no decision was made to export them. As a result, onion imports from India through the Healy land port have stopped on Sunday and Monday. Bangladeshi traders are suffering economically because of this.
Meanwhile, the drivers of several Indian trucks transporting goods through the Healy land port, who did not want to be identified, said they saw hundreds of trucks loaded with onions parked in the Balupara parking lot in Healy, India, on the other side of border. 3-4 tons of onions per truck have rotted due to being in loaded condition for the last week. These rotten onions are thrown back into the little Jamuna River.
Haroon Ur Rashid, chairman of the Healy Land Port Import and Export Group, said that Indian authorities stopped exporting onions to Bangladesh on September 14. Then, in a decision on September 17, they said that only on September 13 will LCed onion be exported through the land port of Healy. In this context, last Saturday 246 metric tons of onions were imported through this port. Most of which are spoiled onions. However, as the LC did not allow the export of 10,000 metric tons of onions until September 14, shipments of these onions are stuck at the border.
“We have asked the Indian businessmen to put pressure on their government,” he said. If they don’t give us onions in the near future, we won’t take these rotten onions. We have already lost half a million rupees on this onion.
Source: UNB
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