DHAKA: The vegetable growers of Savar categorically said their products keep the city’s kitchen markets active.

The farmers and wholesalers of Savar came up with the claim while talking to banglanews at Mirpur kitchen market early Sunday.

One of the vegetable traders Afsar Uddin said that Mirpur, Kawran Bazar, Gazipur, Jatrabari kitchen markets get the majority vegetables from Savar.

He also claimed that they are providing vegetables to most of the city dwellers including Ministers and MPs but they are barely surviving their lives with their family members.

Other vegetable sellers said that now a day the vegetables are not coming from far away due to hartals and blockades. So the city markets are now dependent on the vegetables of Savar, they added.

However, the impacts of hartal, blockade and political turmoil affected the city as well as the country badly. The condition of the city kitchen markets would be worse if the vegetables would not supply from the adjacent areas to Dhaka, the vegetable businessmen added.

Afsar Uddin also said that he incurred a loss of Tk 5,000 in his recent wholesaling of Cauliflowers.

He blamed the gigantic transportation cost due to hartal and blockade in the country.

Afsar also said that the truck owners do not want to take any risk as many trucks and other vehicles were torched on the road amid hartal and blockade in recent days.

Another middleman claimed that they are facing immense sufferings and spending almost double cost for transportation.

Moreover, they are running their businesses amid high risk and in panic.

Another vegetable wholesaler of Hemayetpur, Ashik, faced a loss of Tk 3-lakh in this season.

However, most of the vegetable sellers from adjacent to the capital are now capturing the kitchen markets of Dhaka. They also are hoping to have a safe life and smooth business climate in the country.

BDST: 0825 HRS, FEB 08, 2015