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Traders have complained that most of the onions imported from India through the land port of Sonamasjid are rotten. They face serious economic losses. After being closed for five days in a row, eight truckloads of onions, which were tendered by the LC, entered the land port of Sonamasjid last Saturday. It contained about 240 metric tons of onions.
On going to the site on Sunday afternoon, it was seen that onions were being aired in Shibganj warehouses. Traders say that most of the imported onions have gone bad. They have suffered financially. Azizul Haque and Tajimul Haque, onion stockists in Shibganj, said that around 30 percent of the onions imported from India were wasted. Tareq, an official with the Sonamasjid Land Port Quarantine Entomologist’s Office, and Mainul Islam, deputy director of Panama Port Link Ltd., said most of the imported onions were rotten. This will cause huge financial losses to traders.
They said that onion trucks stuck in the land port of Mahdipur on the other side of India are waiting to reach the next LC. But the vehicles are coming back due to lack of permission from the Indian authorities and rotten onions. Meanwhile, onion imports have started, but the market has not been affected. Domestic onions are still sold on the market at Rs 70-80 / kg.
Taufiqur Rahman Babu, Secretary General of the Sonamasjid Land Port Import and Export Group, said that Indian authorities had allowed the export of onions to the Mahdipur land port, which was jammed before the LC was opened before September 14. . Of this, about 240 tons of onions have been imported. Bhupati Mandal, general secretary of the Mahdipur Land Port C&F Agents Welfare Association, said that some 300 trucks had already returned due to lack of permission and damaged onions. He said that around a hundred truckloads of onions are still waiting to enter Bangladesh. However, he could not say when the trucks would enter the land port of Sonamasjid.
Ittefaq / RKG
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