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Padma’s hilsa has started hitting back from Bangladesh to Bengal markets this monsoon.
After Bangladesh gave special permission to its traders for hilsa export, the state has already received 70 metric tonne hilsa in the last two days.
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Padma’s hilsa has started hitting back from Bangladesh to Bengal markets this monsoon.
After Bangladesh gave special permission to its traders for hilsa export, the state has already received 70 metric tonne hilsa in the last two days.
The neighbouring country will export a total of 1,450 metric tonne of the fish, thereby rekindling hope of resumption of border trade on a regular basis after a gap of eight years.
Packed inside ice-filled theromocol boxes, the first consignment of 20 metric tonne of fish reached in three trucks on Monday.
The 50-metric-tonne second consignment reached the local markets on Tuesday.
Nine companies have been granted permission to export hilsa and has to be completed by October 10, said sources.
It is speculated that the Bengal and Bangladesh governments failed to find a meeting ground on the Teesta water-sharing agreement in 2011, which was the reason behind the neighbouring country’s banning of hilsa export the next year.
However, Bangladesh had stated that low availability of fish was the reason behind the ban.
“We have always been very optimistic.