Onion crimes

There are far too many endlessly sad crime stories in Bangladesh. People are hacked to death, they are beaten to death, they are cut to death with machetes. Plus all the violence that doesn't end in death but torture and awful injuries. Often the victims are women and children.

But this is just too much at the moment. I can't distress my readers or myself with these stories, not just now.

But let's stick to crime. Onion is the big thing now. Not as the perpetrator but as an object for market speculators, big money in onions.

According to news reports, the government in Bangladesh is afraid that the current onion crisis in India is a start of a large smuggling activity of Bangla onions to India. 

India is experiencing a record hike in onion price because of production shortage after heavy rainfall and flood. The tasty vegetable is a central ingredient both in Indian and Bangaladeshi kitchens.

Officials at the Ministry of Commerce in Bangladesh suspect that Bangladeshi traders start smuggling their products to India. The production cost in Bangladesh is less than the current onion price in India. 

But authorities have decided to catch the onion criminals. The Border Guard in Bangladesh is already on alert and sniffing for onions. Their main task is too prevent Bangla onions from being smuggled out of the country.

 

The price hike in India has caused an increase of price in Bangladesh as well. In normal times you get a kilo of onions for 50 eurocents, but now the price is around 90 cents a kilo.

This is not a new phenomenon. Due to similar circumstances the kilo price went up to 1,2 euro a couple of years ago.