State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Friday said around 50,000 tonnes of onion will arrive in the country from India in the next week.

“The first truckload of onions will arrive from India next week. A total of 50,000 tonnes of onion will come to the country gradually,” he said while addressing a programme marking the 'World Consumer Rights Day-2024' at the 'Osmani Memorial Auditorium' in Dhaka.

“We wanted to import the onion before the Ramadan but it did not happen due to various reasons,” he said.

He informed that the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is now selling daily essentials at subsidised rates to one crore low-income families across the country.

Around four crore people in the country are getting benefit of the programme, he added.

Titu informed that many traders and companies are selling products at mill gate prices which is giving consumers a lot of relief.

During the event, the state minister for Commerce inaugurated the 'Supply Chain Monitoring System (SCMS) software'.