Dhaka, March 17 -- Trade and commerce in this country remain as tricky as ever to take both the growers of crops of mass consumption and the consumers for a ride. Big businesses wield their all-pervasive power compelling farmers and the consumers to see both sides of the same coin within a year or the following year depending on the cropping pattern or yield. There is no guarantee that small farmers will ever reap benefit from crops such as paddy, potato and onion enjoying wider consumption than any other items. The theory of demand-supply is conveniently distorted by a syndicated nexus of businesses, hoarders and middlemen. Right now farmers are facing the dual problems of no space in cold storages for their excess yield and the throwawa...