Tag: onion prices
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Vegetable prices crash up to 80% since January, deepening farm distress
Pune|Kolkata: Vegetable prices have plunged since January, worsening farm distress even as consumers get relief. Potatoes are down 40%, onions 50% and tomatoes up to…
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How Bangladesh is bringing onion exporters to tears
India’s stagnating onion exports, while baffling government officials, may owe its recent lacklustre performance, despite rock-bottom local farmgate prices, to Bangladesh’s attempts at self-reliance and…
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‘Better to destroy than sell’: Onion tears flood Maharashtra, farmers’ hopes dashed
When Sudam Ingle, a farmer from Purandar in Maharashtra, took his onions to the local market last week, he returned home with just Rs 664…
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Prices of onions, pulses, cotton hit 3-year low
Prices of daily essentials such as onions, arhar, moong, and urad are trending at their lowest levels in three years, and that of yellow peas…