Govt to buy 3 lakh tonnes of onion once in Rabi season to ensure farmers get fair price

31 Mar 2023 Evaluate

Union Minister Piyush Goyal has stated that the government agencies will buy 3 lakh tonnes of onion once the winter harvest starts coming in. He said that last year, the overall buying of the rabi harvest stood at 2.5 lakh tonnes. He noted that ‘I have already ordered an increased onion purchase from Rabi harvest from 2.5 lakh tonnes last year to 3 lakh tonnes this year to ensure that farmers get a fair price’.

He added that the National Cooperative Consumers Federation and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed) have also been instructed to pick up 'late kharif' harvest stocks, but are not finding the produce in the markets now.

Rabi onion crops harvested during April-June accounts for 65 per cent of India's onion production and meet the consumers' demand till the kharif crop is harvested in October-November. The overall onion production is estimated to have risen to 31.70 million tonnes in 2021-22 from 26.64 million tonnes in the previous year, and the Centre procured 2.50 lakh tonnes of it.

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