The government has decided to continue with the ban on export of the onion, but opened a small window by allowing transhipment of a southern variety which is consumed in limited quantity. After a meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food, Commerce and Industry minister Anand Sharma told reporters that the Ban on onion export will continue. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said one particular variety of onion export has been allowed in small quantity. The government had [...]
December 24, 2010 5:08 am
India’s state-backed National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation may drop a plan to import 25,000 metric tons onion from Pakistan as local prices have started cooling on a series of government measures, including an export ban. Untimely rains had hit supplies of onions from key western state of Maharashtra, causing a furor as prices more than doubled in the last few days. The vegetable is essential to the local cuisine and seen as a bellwether crop. The government imposed an indefinite [...]
November 16, 2010 5:41 am
WHILE Sindh’s new crops of onion and red chilli have started arriving in local markets, their prices are not coming down. The prices of vegetables including onions shot up after the floods, which damaged tens of thousands of acres under onion crop in the province. Meanwhile, red chilli crop also suffered huge loss in lower Sindh due to recent winter rains and shortage of water at the time of sowing. Nasarpur, the biggest onion market in Matiyari district of Sindh, [...]
November 6, 2010 7:54 pm
Farmers in South Maharashtra cultivate onion as a cash crop during the Rabi season (October to January). But transplanting 8 to 10 weeks-old seedlings to the main field is a labour intensive operation. Mr. Pandharinath Sarjerao More, a farmer in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, on the banks of the river Godavari (45 km from Shirdi), noticed a scarcity of skilled farm workers during planting season. Even with adequate farm hands, a lot of expense incurred in transporting them from their villages to [...]
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