Government completes disposal of 35,857 tons of imported onions

The Governing administration has concluded the disposal of 35,857 tonne of onion, imported by state-owned MMTC in 2019 to test spiralling domestic charges, according to the Customer Affairs Ministry.

To consist of onion charges, the authorities had in November 2019 decided to import 1.2 lakh tonnes of onion via MMTC. Given that then, it acquired 35,857 tonne of onion from the overseas market underneath the Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF).

In its latest report, the ministry stated it has concluded the disposal of imported onions by the finish of March. Whole of 35,857 tonne of imported onion has been sold to different states.

Much of the onion (about 29,836 tonnes) was disposed of for the duration of February when there was an enhance in off-just take for the imported onions, it stated.

Imported onions ended up dispatched to states these kinds of as Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and Goa among others.

Some amount of onion was sold via auction. Companies these kinds of as Mother Dairy, Kendriya Bhandar and NAFED ended up advised to retail imported onions to awesome down their charges, the report additional.

The authorities was forced to import onions in a bid to consist of charges that had touched the peak of Rs 160/kg in next 50 {ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} of 2019. The injury in the kharif onion crop owing to late monsoon rains and later on extra rainfall had led to provide constraint and sharp increase in charges.