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India allows exports of onion to Bangladesh, UAE
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The central government has allowed the export of 50,000-tonne onions to Bangladesh and 14,400-tonne onions to UAE, at a time when the staple vegetable's outward shipments have been kept under restrictions.
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Govt committed to onion procurement amid rising prices: Farmers and consum
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The central government will continue procuring onions from farmers, and its intervention in both retail and wholesale will persist, according to Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh.
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Consumer Affairs Dept monitoring onion prices on daily basis: Govt
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Centre on Sunday said that the Department of Consumer Affairs is monitoring Onion exports and prices on a daily basis to ensure stable domestic prices and availability to consumers
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Additional 2 lakh tonne onion procurement from farmers starts in Maharasht
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The procurement of additional 2 lakh tonne onion, which the central government recently decided to rein in prices, has started on Tuesday in key growing belts in Maharashtra, Union food minister Piyush Goyal said.
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NCCF to sell onions at Rs 25 per kg from tomorrow after Centre raises onio
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Consumers can avail onions at a subsidized rate of Rs 25 per kg through retail outlets of the National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Limited (NCCF) from August 21, said a government release on Sunday.
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Centre starts releasing onions from buffer stock to rein in prices
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The buffer stock is maintained to meet any exigencies and for price stabilisation, if rates go up significantly during the lean supply season.
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Govt raises onion buffer stock target for 2023-24 to 3 lakh tonne
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The central government will maintain 3 lakh tonne onion in the 2023-24 season as buffer stock, Union food minister Piyush Goyal informed Parliament On Wednesday.
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Govt maintained onion buffer stock of 2.5 LMT in FY 2022-23
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): With the aim to stabilize onion prices, the government maintained a buffer stock of 2.5 Lakh Metric Ton (LMT) in financial year 2022-23, said Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in a written reply
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Government says intervention helped cool off prices of onion, tomato
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): The all-India retail price of tomato has registered a 29 per cent decline over the last month as arrivals of the staple vegetable into the mandis improved with the onset of monsoon rains, a Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution state
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Buffer stock of onions in 2022-23 breaks past records
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Beating past records, the Central government has procured 2.50 lakh tonnes of onion as a buffer for the 2022-23 season. The buffer size of onions for the current year is 0.50 lakh tons higher than the 2.0 lakh tons procured during 2021-22.
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Buffer of around 44,205 MT of onions, says Centre
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), June 21 (ANI): The centre has informed that a buffer of around 44,205 MT of onions has been built through procurement from the crop of Rabi in 2019 as against a buffer of 13,508 MT built in 2018-19.
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