<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The first consignment of 1, 650 metric tonnes (MT) of onion that arrived in the country on Sunday night is being handed over to dealers in Dhaka and Chattogram.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gholam Khorshed, additional director of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), said 1,650 tons of onions on 42 wagons, reached Sirajganj Bazar rail yard around 6am on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, the unloading of the onion began around 9 am, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of the first consignment, 1,000 tons of onions are being handed over to 100 dealers in Dhaka district.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The remaining 650 tons of onion will be sent to Gazipur and Chattogram, said Gholam Khorshed, reports unb</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said that the government has decided to import onion from neighbouring India after onion prices went up at the local market.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Each kilogram of onion will be sold at Tk 40 through open market sale (OMS) of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh in Dhaka and Chattogram within one day, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>