{"id":67267,"date":"2020-10-24T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T11:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=67267"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T06:23:57","slug":"increasing-onion-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/increasing-onion-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Onion Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"LC20lb DKV0Md\">Onion prices could touch Rs 80 to 100\/kg<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What is the need for government intervention?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Production losses<\/strong>: Heavy rainfall in north Karnataka has resulted in massive losses of kharif onions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage losses<\/strong>: The heavy rains not only destroyed the new crop in Karnataka but also took a toll on stored onions in states.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Low shelf life<\/strong>: Overuse of urea by farmers has resulted in the lower shelf life of the onions.<\/li>\n<li>All these factors have resulted in rise of prices due to a supply-demand mismatch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What steps were taken to reduce the price rise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, to control prices, government banned the export of onion.<\/li>\n<li>This was followed by the relaxation of import norms that allowed easy shipping of onions from Iran, Turkey and other onion-producing nations.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, the government has reintroduced the stock limit. Wholesale traders are now allowed to stock up to 25 tonnes of onion, and retail traders up to 2 tonnes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onion prices could touch Rs 80 to 100\/kg What is the need for government intervention? Production losses: Heavy rainfall in north Karnataka has resulted in massive losses of kharif onions. Storage losses: The heavy rains not only destroyed the new crop in Karnataka but also took a toll on stored onions in states. Low shelf&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/increasing-onion-prices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Increasing Onion Prices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":68,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}