Reduce onion prices

Onion prices have gone up to their record high for this year in kitchen markets. Normally, prices of onions vary between Tk 40-50. But in recent months it has gone up to over Tk 100.

Although traders have used different excuses for charging so much, the truth is that prices have shot up because of collusion and hoarding. The government has been slow to react and has barely made any difference.

Onion is an essential commodity. Traders know this and they have abused this fact along with the government’s nonchalant attitude. As a result, it is the ordinary people who are suffering.

The government needs to step in and make sure such collusion ends and ensure that onion prices go down to their normal level urgently.

Basharat Hossain, Banani