Dhaka, March 16 -- Onion and potato farmers across the country are facing severe financial losses this season due to a combination of record-low prices at the farm level, disease outbreaks and soaring cold storage costs.

Farmers in Pabna and Faridpur, which are major onion-producing regions, have cultivated onions to a great extent this year. Despite the increased production, farmers have been unable to get profitable prices.

Hadisul Islam, a farmer-cum-trader from Atgharia in Pabna, said that after getting low prices of Murikata onions, farmers hoped to recover losses from Hali onions.

The market remains weak and early blight disease has further impacted onion production.

"Plants in many fields have been attacked by blight, preventin...