Officials sound alarm over vanishing vegetables as prices skyrocket — and the crisis is spreading fast

Officials sound alarm over vanishing vegetables as prices skyrocket — and the crisis is spreading fast

Extreme weather, weak infrastructure, and the Earth's rising temperatures are all causes of the spike in vegetable prices in Bangladesh.  Recent storms have devastated crops, and with too few cold storage options to protect harvests, food is going bad before it can be sold. What's happening? As Masud Khan, chairman of Unilever Consumer Care Ltd., explained in The Daily Star, vegetable prices in major markets such as Dhaka's Karwan Bazar have jum…