About 2.31 lakh rooster eggs imported from India came via the Benapole Land Port in Jashore nowadays (9 September).
This is the significant consignment of egg imports from India via Benapole this year. Earlier in November 2023, a entire of 61,950 pieces of Indian eggs entered the land port.
Masudur Rahman, revenue officer at Benapole Personalized Rental, said the eggs will in discovering clearance after inspection as soon as conceivable.
Based entirely mostly on the invoice, the total designate of the imported eggs became $11,272 and every dozen eggs designate $0.56. Which blueprint every egg designate Tk5 and after addition of 33% customs responsibility the import designate stands at roughly Tk7 per egg.
The import comes at a time when costs of eggs are excessive within the country attributable to present shortages following the unusual flood that devastated 11 districts.
Eggs had been sold at Tk160 per dozen at retail markets of the capital last Friday.
