date:Oct 25, 2019
yanmar and Egypt to meet the requirement of onion in the country. We are short of 600,000 tonnes of onion annually and India provides 80 percent of this shortage. Presently we are cooking food without onions.
Munshi said that India stopped exports of onions one and half month back without prior information and this has caused difficulties in Bangladesh. India banned the export of onions after excessive rainfall damaged the crop in September this year.