<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu said on Sunday that the first consignment of 1, 650 metric tonnes (MT) of onion will arrive in the county from India tonight.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He came up with the announcement while talking to reporters after a task force meeting on ‘commodity price and review of market condition’ at the conference room of the Commerce Ministry in the capital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Onion will come from India tonight. Each kilogram of onion will be sold at Tk 40&nbsp; through open market sale (OMS) of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh in Dhaka and Chattogram within one day,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The state minister said 1, 650 MT of onion will come by the first train today and next consignments of imported onion will come in phases.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The government has decided to import onion from neighbouring India through the G2G method after onion prices went up at the local market. - UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>