If your vegetable vendor lures you to buy onions claiming that they are from Egypt ,besides offering them to you at dirt-cheap prices, then think twice. Though the onions are larger and spicier than the Indian variant, a recent batch that has come from overseas is already damaged.

On Saturday morning 4,400 bags, each carrying 25 kilos of the vegetable, entered the Agricultural and Produce Market Committee (APMC) onion potato market. Traders said that while packaging a 50-kilo bag of onions, they found at least two to three kilos were damaged. PIC/ Sayed Sameer Abedi