A supply crunch has pushed up onion prices by an average of 80 percent in Dhaka’s kitchen markets compared to last year.

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Admitting that people suffered a lot due to the skyrocketing prices of onion, Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday assured i

Prices of onions have started to come down again in Dhaka kitchen markets.

The prices decreased by Tk 10-20 per kg on Wednesday from the

Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque here on Monday said the price of onion is not marking any fall as there is a shortage of the bulb a

The onion price remained unchanged at Tk 180-200 per kg at the retail market in the capital on Monday although it fell by Tk 30-40 at the wholesale

Although the kitchen markets in the capital have seen the huge supply of both the imported and newly-harvested onions in the last few days, the pri

There is no supply of onions at 33 wholesale markets at different points in the city since Sunday night. Although the government has started import

About 30,000 maunds of onion were imported from Myanmar through Teknaf land port on Monday alone. 

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The prices of onion jumped up to Tk 25 per kg in the capital’s wholesale markets on Sunday on supply crunch of the  bulb, traders said.<

Another cargo aircraft carrying 105 metric tonnes of imported onion from Egypt arrived here on Thursday evening.

Abdul Latif Munshi, Publ