-The Indian Express By all accounts, 2018 has been a year of deep losses for Maharashtra’s Onion growers. IT HAS been a couple of weeks since Sanjay Balkrishna Sathe, 44, sent Prime Minister Narendra Modi an online money order of Rs 1,064 — the proceeds from the sale of 750 kg of his “top quality” Onions at the Niphad marketplace in Nashik, home to half of India’s Onion crop. The money...
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Fields of ferment -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express Why assembly election verdicts should occasion a rethink on loan waivers, MSP raises The results of the elections to state assemblies should be a humbling experience for the BJP. Political pundits have started analysing the verdict, since the reasons for the BJP’s defeat have important implications for the parliamentary election of 2019. One factor that is being flagged by analysts is farm distress. Farmers across the country are not...
More »Two debt-ridden Onion farmers found dead in Maharashtra
-PTI Mumbai: Police on Sunday said two debt-ridden Onion farmers from Maharashtra’s Nashik district committed suicide in the last two days, due to indebtedness and low rates commanded by the bulb in markets. The deceased were identified as Tatyabhau Khairnar, 44, and Manoj Dhondage, 33. Both of them hailed from Baglan taluka in the north Maharashtra district. Nashik accounts for 50 per cent of Onion production in India. Farmers here have claimed that...
More »Now, farmer gets 51 paise per kg for his Onions, sends money to Maharashtra CM
-PTI Chandrakant Bhikan Deshmukh, a resident of Andarsul in Yeola tehsil, has sent a money order of Rs 216 to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. He got this amount after selling 545 kg of Onions in an auction on December 5. Nashik: After a farmer sent his meagre earnings from sale of Onions in the wholesale market to the Prime Minister, another farmer in Nashik district of Maharashtra has adopted the same...
More »Onion Farmers Remain at Mercy of Market Ups and Downs as Prices Crash Again -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Farmers have been forced to sell at prices as low as Re 1 per kg, but the Modi government’s focus remains on controlling a rise in prices. New Delhi: Last week, Sanjay Sathe, an Onion farmer from Nasik district in Maharashtra, made headlines. He had donated Rs 1,064 to the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund – the amount he had earned after selling 750 kg of Onions. It translated to less...
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