Anticipating an onion shortage in the national capital the Delhi Government had recently asked the Central Government to ban onion export from Maharashtra. However onion traders and exporters have opposed the move.
While government officials blame traders for hoarding, the traders say the rain is to blame. As per NHRDF data, the country had a 20 lakh-tonne buffer stock from last year’s 66-lakh production, of which only 10 lakh tonnes have been consumed. The situation was not much different in Maharashtra, where 20 lakh tonnes were produced last year, of which about seven lakh tonnes were exported.
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