Why are Onions so Expensive?
Since onions have become more expensive than petrol, it has lead to the suffering of the common man and various restaurant businesses as well. Watch the video to find out the real cause of this.
For a long time the price of onions has been increasing. Newspapers, TV channels are all talking about the extremely expensive onions. In Delhi, West Bengal & Mumbai the price of Onions for 1kg is more than Rs 100. The cost of onions is now almost the same as petrol. People all over India are very shocked.
In West Bengal’s East Midnapore district, thieves stole onions worth ?50,000. They did not touch the cash box. In Maharashtra Onions worth ?22 lakh was stolen from a transport truck. In Bihar people wore helmets while selling Onions. It was because they were scared people will throw stones and fight because of the high price of onions. Restaurants have stopped using onions in their food.
The prices of onion have been rising since May this year. This is due to delay in monsoon. When it rained it rained so heavily that it damaged crops in the state of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. These states that produce a lot of onions. In Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat due to unseasonal rainfall in September a lot of onion farms were damaged.
The Central government on December 1 announced that it will be importing 11,000 tonnes of onion from Turkey to bring down the onion prices in India. For a long time India has always exported Onions. Now because of all these problems we are importing onions.
