Shinde also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah and Piyush Goyal for providing relief to onion producers by purchasing the 2 LMT of onion.
In an effort to provide relief to consumers, onions from the buffer will be accessible at a subsidised rate of Rs 25 per kg through retail outlets and mobile vans from today, , onion prices, vegetable prices, nafed, nccf
During the day, auctions of onions in APMCs in Nashik were halted in protest and several farmers and traders held protests across the district seeking a rollback of the export duty.