FILE - A worker rests on onions at a market. (PTI PHOTO)
- MUMBAI —
An onion growers' association in Maharashtra has demanded a compensation of INR
1 lakh per acre for farmers who lost their crop due to severe rainfall in the
state last month.
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- Maharashtra is the largest onion-producing state in the
country.
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- In a letter written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on
May 29, the Maharashtra Rajya Kanda Utpadak Sanghatna also asked for
"transparent" onion procurement by the National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED).
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- Maharashtra received unprecedented rainfall in May, it
pointed out.
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- Onion-producing districts such as Jalgaon, Dhule, Nashik,
Ahilyanagar, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Pune, Solapur, Beed, Dharashiv, Sangli,
Buldhana, Akola, Parbhani and Jalna were severely affected by rains, the letter
said.
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- Due to heavy rainfall across the state since May 6, there
has been a significant damage to the onion crop across the state, said the
letter signed by the association's president Bharat Dighole and its Nashik
district chief Jaydeep Bhadane.
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