Onion output dropped to 189.2 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 crop year due to poor rains
Prices started rising again beyond Rs 30 per kg in the last one week and are now ruling at Rs 32 per kg at Lasalgaon
To give relief to Delhiites, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd has started selling onions at Rs 55 a kg through its five retail outlets and two mobile vans in the national capital.
Retail prices across the country continued to be at Rs 80 a kg.
The domestic availability of onion has been affected on account of damage to kharif crop because of unseasonal rains in key producing states including Maharashtra.
Increased harvesting is expected to boost supply
A Ganesh Nadar speaks to onion farmers in Nashik, India's largest wholesale onion market, about the high prices.
Sowing up 400%; prices may be low in 2014 as Maharashtra, MP and Bengal also likely to increase acreage 15-20%.
Shortage of seeds, threat of El Nino expected to restrict sowing.
India exports about 1.5 mt of onion every year.
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