Author: BL Pune Bureau

[ad_1] Onion growers on Monday stopped auctions at Lasalgaon agricultural produce advertising and marketing committee (APMC) yard, Asia’s greatest onion market, complaining that its costs have collapsed by 50 per cent over the previous few days. Farmers demanded that they have to obtain a minimum of ₹30 per kg for his or her produce.About 7,980 quintals of the bulb crop got here to the Lasalgaon APMC yard. The bottom charge per quintal was ₹500 and the best charge ₹1,812. The modal charge, the speed at which most trades happen, was ₹1,400 on Monday. The value was ₹10-12 per kg when the…

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