NAFED has disposed of 14,500 tonne of buffer onion in the wholesale markets located in cities like Azadpur (Delhi), Chandigarh, Ambala (Haryana); Amritsar, Ludhiana, Bhatinda, and Jalandhar (Punjab), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Tadepalli (Andhra Pradesh) and Thrissur (Kerala).
The National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India (NCCF) is already selling tomatoes on behalf of the central government at a subsidised rate and it has now been mandated to retail buffer onion.