NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar led a protest demanding the government buy onions at Rs 25 per kg. Farmers are selling produce at distress prices ...

Onion farmers will receive Rs 12.35 per kg for their produce. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced this procurement p...

Supply shocks, export disruptions, and labour shortages caused by the Iran war are beginning to strain India’s agriculture despite ample fo...

Onion prices are projected to remain high for the next two weeks as farmers are holding back their harvests in anticipation of better price...

Five months after implementing a restriction on onion exports due to anticipated shortages in the rabi harvest, India revoked the ban on Sa...

India lifted its ban on onion exports after five months due to concerns about farmers' dissatisfaction, potentially impacting voting in sev...

Onion prices in the retail trade have fluctuated from ?90 per kg to ?20/kg during the last six months, while the wholesale prices have seen...

Onion prices started to climb in Maharashtra’s Pimpalgaon and Lasalgaon wholesale markets, Asia’s largest, in the second week of August. Ho...

The government on August 19 imposed a 40% duty on all types of onions exported from India to tame strong bullish trend in onion prices. Thi...

Traders in Nashik, India have decided to indefinitely close onion auctions to protest against the government's imposition of a 40% duty on ...

Onion auctions have shut indefinitely in all agriculture produce market committees (APMCs) in Maharashtra's Nashik district to protest agai...

The government had last week decided to lift the nearly six-month-old ban on export of onions as prices are likely to fall sharply due to b...

India's onion exports had doubled in 2016-17 over the previous year.

Onion export was canalised in 1974. National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (Nafed) was the only canalising agency till 1999.

The government is mulling banning onion exports to contain prices, which have risen back to the Rs 80-90/kg level in the national capital.

The Minister said the rise in onion prices is a "temporary situation" as heavy rains in major producing states like Maharashtra have affect...

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is not in favour of onion export ban, saying it will hit India's image as a global supplier.