date:May 19, 2016
d to resort to distress sales, he said. A limited amount of onion has been stored under the Price Stabilisation Fund of the Centre and more needs to be done to maintain stocks, he said. Moreover, late kharif onion arrivals are on the rise in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. In Nashik district alone, daily onion arrivals exceed 15,000 to 20,000 quintals.
A recent National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation ( NHRDF) report states that onion exports fell by 6.75% to 828,000 to