As prices at India's largest wholesale market for the bulb in Nashik district crossed Rs 2,000/ quintal last week, Sonawane saw “acche din” (good days) ahead. The new prices would have helped him to more than recoup his earlier losses.
The farmers’ resistance has elicited differences in views from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies in state. While union minister Bharati Pawar justified the Centre’s decision, ministers from the Ajit Pawar faction of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) as well as Shiv Sena favoured higher prices demanded by onion farmers | Mumbai news
To improve the domestic availability of onions, government had on Saturday (August 19) imposed 40 per cent export duty on onions with immediate effect up to December 31, 2023.