Bangladesh, Sept. 21 -- 35 per kg in the wholesale market has had little impact at the retail level where the popular kitchen item continues to be sold at high prices.

The local variety of onion was being sold at Tk 90-100 while the imported ones cost Tk 50-80 in Dhaka's markets and shops on Monday, a week after India's onion export ban sent the prices through the roof in Bangladesh.

But despite the release of Indian onion consignments at the border and bolstered TCB truck and online sale, the prices remained the same in the retail and online shops.

Local variety is being sold at Tk 89-102/kg and the Indian variety at Tk 60-70/kg at online market like chaldal.com, meenaclick, shwapno and others.

Moumi Khandkar, a banker, told UNB the ...