Onions: Low production, export, hoarding and rate manipulation are driving the rates up

If sky-rocketing onion prices are giving poll jitters to the Congress-led governments at the Centre and in Delhi, the UPA government has no one but itself to blame. In August, the government exported nearly 30,000 tonnes of onion when people across the country were literally shedding onion tears, buying the kitchen staple at Rs 70-Rs 80 a kilo.

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