Although prices of onions are surging throughout Bangladesh, 90 tons of onions are waiting to be unloaded after imports from India came in at Benapole port five days ago. Due to the long delay, the onions have already started to rot, said the port authority.
Benapole Quarantine Plant Monitoring Officer Hemanta Kumar Sarkar said, on December 5, the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) imported 90 tons of onion, but the onion shipment has not been unloaded yet. One Indian truck driver said that he has been waiting at Benapole port for the last five days. The onions are starting to rot, but no one is coming to unload, he said.
Source: thedailystar.net