They said the current price for onion is between Rs 900 and Rs 1,200 per quintal depending on the quality of the produce. However, a few traders of the Lasalgaon market committee were not convinced. He said this rise in price was from Rs 300-Rs 800 per quintal because of the high-volume export to Telangana. This is not the first time onions from Maharashtra have been imported but certainly, farmers are getting a higher price in the Telangana markets.”Īccording to Jadhav, onions of Lasalgaon market are fetching approximately Rs 2,000-Rs 2,200 per quintal in Telangana. It is just facilitating traders to get Maharashtra’s onions. The perception being made in the Lasalgaon market that the government is purchasing the onions is not true. Speaking to News18, BRS state coordinator Harshwardhan Jadhav said: “The Telangana government is pro-farmer. The BRS has decided to give a good price for the onion produce in Maharashtra, with the Telangana government facilitating the state’s traders to procure onion from India’s largest market for the vegetable in Lasalgaon. While the development showed the desperation of the crop growers, it came as a golden opportunity for the Telangana-based Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to enter Maharashtra’s political landscape. Recently, several farmers in Nashik district burnt their onion produce after failing to recover their initial investment. In Maharashtra, irked by low prices for their produce, farmers were often forced to either burn their entire crop or give it away for free.
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