Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Mismatch in salt prices

Tk 2 at field, Tk 18 at market “You eat that with everything every day. That is salt, nothing else,” said the driver pointing at the pile of snow-white substance in a barren field on way to Cox’s Bazar. The salt farmers, seeming long deprived, in torn cloths, were working barefoot making piles of sun ... Read more

Salt farmers seek ban on import

Salt producers in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday demanded a ban on ‘unnecessary’ salt import from India and Myanmar to protect the sector. They also demanded that the government should have a strong mechanism to monitor the whole process from production salt to its marketing to reach the salt to retailers at lower