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Potato and onion growers in Bangladesh face rising cultivation costs for fertiliser, seeds, irrigation, fuel and labour while farmgate prices fail to cover expenses. Growers in Rangpur are unable to sell cold-stored potatoes at prices covering production and storage costs.
Farmers in northern potato areas and onion regions Faridpur and Pabna are reluctant to plant the next season.
Lower planting intentions and weak farmgate returns could tighten future Bangladeshi potato and onion supplies, but the story has little direct bearing on global feed grain or meal prices.
today.thefinancialexpress.com.bdNov 1, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
