Sweet makers in Tangail are facing bitter experiences to run their business and maintaining families due to hartal and blockade.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune many sweet makers at Porabari said they have forced to cut drastically their daily production as they cannot supply their products to the buyers across the country.
Despite the cut in production volume, they are incurring losses as they have pay salaries to their employees and spend money behind operation costs.
Many small sweet traders, however, have been forced to stop their production, leaving many employees jobless, who are facing difficulties to maintain their families.
Krishna Dash, owner of Gopal Mistanna Bhander at Pach Ani Bazaar in Tangail town, said: “We have reduced the volume of daily production to one-fourth of our capacity. We are now only trying to keep continue our business.”
Shapan Ghosh, president of Tangail District Restora Mistanno Malik Somity, said the Porabari Cham Cham are sold at more than 300 shops in the district.
“Sells of our sweet usually increase during the winter season. But this year, we could not sell as expected due to the political unrest,” he said.
“Normally, we produce sweet from 20 to 25 mound of milk a day. But now it has gone down to only four to five mound a day,” he added.
If the situation continues, it will be difficult to continue the business, said Shapan Ghosh, who is also an owner of Joykali Mistanno Bhander.
There is a good demand of the traditional sweet in the country’s different parts, including Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. But buyers from the cities cannot come.