Santhia

Santhia onion stocks rot as prices fall below the cost of growing them

In Pabna's Santhia, the country's biggest onion area, onions stored in hope of a better price now sell for Tk 1,000 to 1,100 a maund against a production cost of about Tk 1,500, while stocks lose about 15 kg a maund to rot and drying.