The price of eggs has again gone exorbitantly high. As a consequence, millions of consumers are suffering. We have been observing for a few months that the hatchery owners in connivance witth poultry farms are charging Tk. 30 to 32 for a set of four eggs. If business ethics is followed, the price of one hali (a set of four) of eggs could not be more than Tk. 16. It has been observed in therecent past that when the government planned to go for open egg import on several occasions , the poultry and hatchery owners called press conferences and misled the public by saying that the Indian eggs would bring bird flu and destroy thousands of poultry farms in the country. In fact, this is an ugly business tactic used by them. They convinced the government decisionmakers of imposing the ban and other restrictions on import of eggs. The cause behind the decision

of the government of banning egg import is not understood by the people. A democratically elected government must not continue such ban resulting in price hike of eggs. The government should withdraw all sorts of restrictions on egg import - without further delay. This withdrawal of import restrictions will help lower the price of eggs. The poultry and hatchery owners should not be allowed to make extra profit at the cost of millions of consumers across the country.

Md. Ashraf Hosain

Ramna, Dhaka