Mismanagement of Onions in India? | Ghanti Bajao

The Centre's move came ostensibly to arrest the runaway prices of onions, which touched over Rs 30,000 per tonne in Lasalgaon last week, and may go up further, experts fear. An abrupt blanket ban on the export of onions by the Centre on Tuesday jolted growers in Lasalgaon, the country's biggest wholesale market of the staple vegetable, even as politicians and other farmers cried foul.