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Onion Exports Face Woes In Wooing Back Importers, Higher Domestic Price
by M R Subramani - Feb 10, 2021 10:37 AM
A file picture of onions kept ready for auction at Gondal Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Yard in Gujarat.
Snapshot
According to the Kolkata-based Directorate-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, India exported 13.17 lakh tonnes of onion between April and October this fiscal before the ban was imposed.
Onion shipments from India are facing problems after the Union government lifted the ban on exports from 1 January this year, first in wooing back importers and now due to rising domestic prices.
The Union government banned onion exports in September last year after the vegetableâs retail prices began to surge. In the second week of October, the rates topped Rs 100 a kg in retail outlets.
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Crop
By Peter Muiruri | December 20th 2020 at 08:00:00 GMT +0300
Work in progress at Avoveg Limited, a company dealing in the processing and export of horticultural produce. [David Njaaga, Standard]
The National Horticultural Policy shows how agro-processing and packaging technologies are relatively undeveloped.
As Kenya ramps up avocado production, adoption of modern technology can boost production of the crop that is fast becoming a key foreign exchange earner.
The National Horticultural Policy cites poor uptake of modern methods of farming as one of the key challenges that hampers horticultural farmers from realising full potential.
For example, the policy shows how agro-processing and packaging technologies are relatively undeveloped in Kenya.