Mumbai: Pre-monsoon rains in several elements of maharashtra because the star may have accelerated the concerns of the country's onion cultivators, who are already stressed about falling expenses of the kitchen staple.
Onion plants on thousands of acres were damaged in the rains, leaving farmers observing heavy losses,arashtra National onion Producers Farmers' Association founder-president Bharat Dighole informed PTI.
The harm in actual terms is yet to be ascertained as the rains continue and panchnamas (spot assessments) haven't been completed, he lamented.
Onion-producing areas in Konkan, Nashik, Pune, Kolhapur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Latur, Amravati, and nagpur have been witnessing heavy unseasonal rains when you consider that they might also be doctors.
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"Unseasonal rains have lashed onion-growing districts of Dhule, Nashik, Ahilyanagar, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Pune, Solapur, Beed, Dharashiv, Akola, Jalna, Buldhana, and Jalgaon. Charges had already been down and have similarly slumped due to unseasonal rains," he said.
He said in the Lasalgaon market, as of May 20, the average fee turned into Rs 1,150 per
s begin arrangements for the Rabi season a year in advance, with the nursery being installed August-September 2024 and replantation done from november (2024) to january (2025), Dighole defined.
"Farmers who have harvested the crop before march this year have been given the correct yield in line with the acre, and those harvesting in April-May also haven't been lucky, as the crop has confronted immoderate warmness and unseasonal rains. Numerous farmers do not have garage facilities, and people who keep their produce within the fields have been worst affected inside the rains since May.
The harvested plants of those farmers have come to be wet at the same time as even status crops had been damaged in many regions, Dighole introduced.
In 2022-23, onion cultivation was five hundred fifty-three thousand two hundred twelve hectares; even as in 2023-24, it turned into 464,884 hectares, and in 2024-25, a record 651,965 hectares, he stated.
Dighole stated Nashik is the largest onion-producing vicinity in the U.S.nd in 2024-25, the crop was cultivated on 290,136 hectares, while it was on 167,285 hectares in 2023-24 and 248,417 hectares in 2022-23.
Notwithstanding bans being imposed by the Union government now and then, exports have been robust and taken in widespread sales, with maharashtra being the leading state in the united states of America in this regard, he pointed out.
"In 2018-19, 21.83 lakh tonnes of onions have been exported, bringing in Rs 3,468 crore in foreign forex. In 2019-20, eleven.49 lakh tonnes have been exported, and the revenue changed into Rs 2,320 crore. It turned into 15.73 lakh tonnes and Rs 3,432 crore in 2021-22, and in 2022-23, we exported 25.25 lakh tonnes of onions and earned Rs 4,522 crore. The figure changed to 17.17 lakh tonnes and Rs 3,922 crore for 2023-24," he stated, giving nationwide figures.
The Union government must make public the yearly output needed inside the country so that farmers can plan as a consequence and extra produce may be exported.
"In this type of scenario, there could be no shortage, and consumers can get low-cost onions. While onion prices are rising, the government steps in to control it via levying export duty, minimal export prices, and banning exports. Farmers suffer due to it," Dighole asserted..jpg)
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