Bumper production of onions, forcing farmers to sell onions at one rupee per kg

New Delhi, June 10, 2022, Friday

While farmers in states like Kerala, UP and Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka are getting good prices for onions, Maharashtra, which produces 40 per cent of the total onions in the country, is in dire straits.

In Aurangabad, Maharashtra, at one stage the price of onion was 75 paise per kg. Even in Nashik district, the low prices available to farmers are a matter of concern.

Bharat Didhole, president of the Maharashtra Onion Growers' Association, says trains should be run from Maharashtra to Kerala and Karnataka for onions. So that the farmers get at least the money they spent on onion cultivation. Farmers have to spend Rs 15 to 18 per kg to grow onions and at present they are getting Rs 1 to 4 per kg. Therefore, arrangements should be made to send these onions to the states where good prices of onions can be obtained.

He says that if the Maharashtra government cannot provide good prices for onions, then they should help in setting up onion storage. The state government should provide Rs 2 lakh per farmer instead of Rs 87000 for storage. So that farmers do not have to sell onions at cheap prices due to lack of storage.

The government has projected 31.1 million tonnes of onions in 2021-22. Thus, production has increased this year and due to this, the farmers of Maharashtra have fallen behind.

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