Onion supply comes down to 30 percent at Khatunganj market | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
June 13, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
Onion supply comes down to 30 percent at Khatunganj market

Bangladesh

TBS Report
15 November, 2019, 10:05 pm
Last modified: 16 November, 2019, 09:57 am

Related News

  • Onion, oil get costlier as potato prices fall in a week
  • Potato, onion prices increase by Tk10 after Eid
  • Onion prices still stay high, other Ramadan essentials soar too
  • Onion prices stay high as importers do not seek alternative markets
  • Tears for onions

Onion supply comes down to 30 percent at Khatunganj market

A huge demand and supply side gap lingers

TBS Report
15 November, 2019, 10:05 pm
Last modified: 16 November, 2019, 09:57 am
Onion supply comes down to 30 percent at Khatunganj market

Onion supply has come down to 30 percent at the country's largest wholesale market Khatunganj of Chattogram.

The crisis has deepened due to India's onion export ban, the traders of the market said. 

Though onion is now being imported from Myanmar and Egypt, there is still a great demand and supply side gap, they claimed.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

The limited stock of onion is lowering supplies to retail markets, they explained. 

General Secretary of Khatunganj Hamid Ullah Market's Traders' Welfare Association, Mohammad Idris said, some 51 business organisations import onion to this market which is sold to places across the country at a wholesale price. 

"We saw 20 to 30 trucks with 260 to 300 tonne of onions entering this market daily, but the current scenario is totally different," he said.

Currently, some eight to 10 trucks come to Khatunganj market from Myanmar with around 14 tonnes of onions. Though another 30 to 40 trucks carrying onion also arrive from Myanmar, they are discharged at Teknaf, and are instantly supplied to the country's other districts, he said.

Although onions are now being imported from Myanmar and Egypt, it is unlikely that the current crisis will soon be over, Idris said. 

A total of 5,947 tonne of onions were imported from Egypt, Myanmar, China, Turkey, the UAE, and Pakistan from September 29 to November 13, this year through this port, according to the data of Plant Quarantine Wing of Chattogram port.

3306 tonnes were imported from Egypt, 1288 tonnes from Myanmar, 873 tonnes from China, 112 tonnes from the UAE, 139 tonnes from Pakistan, and 86 tonnes from Turkey. 

As India had imposed a ban on the export of onions on 29 September, Bangladeshi traders opened Letter of Credits (LCs) to import 66,000 tonnes of onions through Chattogram port. But only 6,000 tonnes have reached the port.

Anwar Parvej, manager of Chattogram Banijjalay, an onion importing organisation at Khatunganj market said, "All of our depots are open. Small traders came for onion, but we could not supply them anything."

Top News

Onion price

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Infographics: TBS
    Lengthy legal road ahead to repatriate Saifuzzaman's wealth from UK
  • From fact-checker to fact-checked: CA Press Wing’s turn in the hot seat
    From fact-checker to fact-checked: CA Press Wing’s turn in the hot seat
  • Wreckage of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner showing part of its registration "VT-ANB" in Ahmedabad, India, June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Amit Dave
    Air India Dreamliner crashes into Ahmedabad college hostel, kills over 290

MOST VIEWED

  • Keir Starmer declines to meet CA Yunus: FT report
    Keir Starmer declines to meet CA Yunus: FT report
  • Wreckage of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner showing part of its registration "VT-ANB" in Ahmedabad, India, June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Amit Dave
    Air India Dreamliner crashes into Ahmedabad college hostel, kills over 290
  • Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. Photo: Collected
    UK crime agency now freezes assets of ex-land minister Saifuzzaman: AJ
  • File Photo of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus: UNB
    Prof Yunus to receive Harmony Award from King Charles today
  • Infofgraphics: TBS
    DGHS issues 11-point directive to prevent spread of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur. TBS Sketch
    Bangladesh mulls settlements with tycoons over offshore wealth: BB governor tells FT

Related News

  • Onion, oil get costlier as potato prices fall in a week
  • Potato, onion prices increase by Tk10 after Eid
  • Onion prices still stay high, other Ramadan essentials soar too
  • Onion prices stay high as importers do not seek alternative markets
  • Tears for onions

Features

Among pet birds in the country, lovebirds are the most common, and they are also the most numerous in the haat. Photo: Junayet Rashel

Where feathers meet fortune: How a small pigeon stall became Dhaka’s premiere bird market

1d | Panorama
Illustration: Duniya Jahan/ TBS

Forget Katy Perry, here’s Bangladesh’s Ruthba Yasmin shooting for the moon

2d | Features
File photo of Eid holidaymakers returning to the capital from their country homes/Rajib Dhar

Dhaka: The city we never want to return to, but always do

3d | Features
Photo collage shows political posters in Bagerhat. Photos: Jannatul Naym Pieal

From Sheikh Dynasty to sibling rivalry: Bagerhat signals a turning tide in local politics

5d | Bangladesh

More Videos from TBS

Banks' estimates were wrong: Bangladesh Bank spokesperson

Banks' estimates were wrong: Bangladesh Bank spokesperson

9h | Podcast
What exactly happened to the ill-fated Boeing aircraft?

What exactly happened to the ill-fated Boeing aircraft?

10h | TBS World
Govt to set up Debt Office as loan burden to hit Tk29 lakh cr by FY28

Govt to set up Debt Office as loan burden to hit Tk29 lakh cr by FY28

10h | TBS Insight
Curfew imposed for second night in Los Angeles

Curfew imposed for second night in Los Angeles

11h | TBS World
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net