[🇧🇩] Indo-Bangla Relation: India's Regional Ambition, Geopolitical Reality, and Strategic Options For Bangladesh

[Krishna with Flute]

We have already stopped buying various agricultural commodities from India. We stopped importing onion from India, started onion imports from Egypt last week and Indian govt. immediately reduced export tariff to 20% from 40% so that Gujaratis can survive. Buyers always hold leverage, not sellers.

India eases onion export restrictions, reduces export duty to 20%

India banned overseas sales of onions in December last year to boost domestic supplies after patchy rains in key states led to a 20% fall in output

www.tbsnews.net

India has ease the restriction means restrictions are still there and there were stringent restrictions earlier. That is what I say. We have more demand of import from India than we can supply. That is exactly I say. Had we had no demand, we would be giving incentive rather than putting restrictions.

 

[Bilal9]

India has ease the restriction means restrictions are still there and there were stringent restrictions earlier. That is what I say. We have more demand of import from India than we can supply. That is exactly I say. Had we had no demand, we would be giving incentive rather than putting restrictions.

Restrictions meant Gujarati and Maratha onion growers were threatening suicide, per your media. Some had carried out on the threat. :-(

When will Indians ever realize that theirs is a poor third world country suffering hunger rather than boast super power status? Just because Modi makes you feel good with untruths is not what is true.

India ranks far lower than both Pakistan and Bangladesh in the Global Hunger Index.

India

In the 2025 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 102nd out of the 123 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2025 GHI scores. With a score of 25.8 in the 2025 Global Hunger Index, India has a level of hunger that is serious.

www.globalhungerindex.org

Global Hunger Index Scores by 2025 GHI Rank

Note: As always, rankings and index scores from this table cannot be accurately compared to rankings and index scores from previous reports.

www.globalhungerindex.org

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/31/hunger-is-indias-biggest-problem-and-why-millions-are-still-hungry.html

Onion prices had dipped to unsustainable levels in India because of export restriction recently per your Indian media. Even before that, there was an onion glut in India. One Gujarati guy got fifteen rupees of profit from cultivating one acres of onion production. Without exporting onions, these people will die.

The onion export restriction was a bad geo-political move toward Bangladesh which back-fired on the Modi govt.

Just an effed up situation and horrible anti-people moves - as is typical for Modi Govt.

Onion export ban triggers protests among farmers, traders in Gujarat

Farmers & traders in Gujarat protest Centre's overnight ban on onion export, causing prices to crash & disrupting trading.

www.thehindu.com

Instead of quoting "ideas" using your unverified "logic" - I suggest quoting credible news sources.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Restrictions meant Gujarati and Maratha onion growers were threatening suicide, per your media. Onion prices had dipped to unsustainable levels because of export restriction recently per your media. Even before that, there was an onion glut.

The onion export restriction was a bad geo-political move toward Bangladesh which back-fired on the Modi govt.

Just an effed up situation and horrible anti-people moves - as is typical for Modi Govt.

Onion export ban triggers protests among farmers, traders in Gujarat

Farmers & traders in Gujarat protest Centre's overnight ban on onion export, causing prices to crash & disrupting trading.

www.thehindu.com

Instead of bring ideas by quoting your unverified "logic" - I suggest quoting credible news sources.

I have quoted your post and explained what it means. You are contradicting yourself.

Rathar than doing chest thumping of onion import from Egypt than from India, you should ask yourself why BD need to import even onion, rice and wheat like items. You guys are not even self sufficient to produce your food. You are proudly post the news that BD imported onion from Egypt than from India.

 

[Bilal9]

I have quoted your post and explained what it means. You are contradicting yourself.

Rathar than doing chest thumping of onion import from Egypt than from India, you should ask yourself why BD need to import even onion, rice and wheat like items. You guys are not even self sufficient to produce your food. You are proudly post the news that BD imported onion from Egypt than from India.

You don't understand the basics of supply/demand.

We consume far more in onions than we produce, so we have to import. We produced around 33 Lakh tonnes of Onion last year. Same with Rice - where we have to import because we consume far more than we produce. We don't eat that much wheat.

In fact every year, the onion production exceeds that of previous year. We don't have drought like in India's Western onion growing areas.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/agriculture/334434/chapainawabganj-farmers-reap-benefits-of-bumper

Our cost of agri production is also higher than India because of rapid industrialization. People have better jobs than farming, unlike India. Hard to find people in Bangladesh for lower wage farming.

In India majority jobs found are in low-wage farming. Therefore India's agri (onion) production costs are far lower.

There are about 20 plus lakhs of illegal Indian workers working in Bangladeshi factories because of job shortages in India and even then, far lower wages than Bangladesh. We allow them to stay and work because we need people to work our export industries. Instead of Shokar Gujari - Indians think that it is some kind of power that their illegal Millions are working in Bangladesh.

The habit of chest-thumping is endemic to India under Modi, not Bangladesh. We don't have to get votes for BJP.

Indians hardly consume anything. Avg. Indian spending on groceries is probably half that of Pakistani or Bangladeshi people.

Bangladesh's onion production on track to topple previous records

While onion farmers in other major growing, such as Rajbari and Pabna, are also eyeing bumper yields, their profits could be constricted by the rapid rise in production costs.

asianews.network

 

[Krishna with Flute]

You don't understand the basics of supply/demand.

We consume far more in onions than we produce, so we have to import. We produced around 33 Lakh tonnes last year.

In fact every year, the onion production exceeds that of previous year. We don't have drought like in India's Western onion growing areas.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/agriculture/334434/chapainawabganj-farmers-reap-benefits-of-bumper

Our cost of agri production is also higher than India because of rapid industrialization. People have better jobs than farming, unlike India, where majority jobs found are in low-wage farming. Hard to find people to where farming offers lower wages.

There are about 20 plus lakhs of illegal Indian workers working in Bangladeshi factories. We allow them to stay and work because we need people to work our export industries. Instead of Shokar Gujari - Indians think that it is some kind of power that their illegal Millions are working in Bangladesh.

The habit of chest-thumping is endemic to India under Modi, not Bangladesh. We don't have to get votes for BJP.

Indians hardly consume anything. Avg. Indian spending on groceries is probably half that of Pakistani or Bangladeshi people.

Bangladesh's onion production on track to topple previous records

While onion farmers in other major growing, such as Rajbari and Pabna, are also eyeing bumper yields, their profits could be constricted by the rapid rise in production costs.

asianews.network

That is what exactly I told you that you are unable to produce the food you consume. Batter not talk on Industrialization as Gautam adani's networth is higher than the value of BD's capital market.

 

[Bilal9]

That is what exactly I told you that you are unable to produce the food you consume. Batter not talk on Industrialization as Gautam adani's networth is higher than the value of BD's capital market.

Your "logic" is non-existent. I am done with you and will stop answering your posts after this.
It is a lost cause.

Self-sufficiency in agri products like onions or rice is not something to boast about. No one cares. These are widely-traded commodities globally.

Please correct your spelling before you post. It is embarrassing.

Gautam Adani is a massive fraudster and this has been well-proven.

Swiss freeze $310m linked to Adani as fraud claims resurface

New documents published this week reveal that fraud allegations made against Adani appear to have been on the radar of regulators in Switzerland for years.

www.theeastafrican.co.ke

India’s Richest Man Accused of Pulling the ‘Largest Con in Corporate History’

A two-year investigation by a short seller claims Adani Group engaged in accounting fraud worth billions of dollars.

time.com

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/adani-vs-hindenburg-research-what-you-need-know-2024-01-03/

 

[PakistanProud]

New American delegation re-iterates idea on working directly with Bangladesh bypassing Indian interference.

I see 'Donald Lu' in the midst there. Be very wary of him as he was one of the leading figures to oust Imran Khan.

 

[Bilal9]

I see 'Donald Lu' in the midst there. Be very wary of him as he was one of the leading figures to oust Imran Khan.

Yes - well noted.

But we have no option for now other than playing nice with the US.