date:Jan 06, 2016
In Nashik, India, unseasonable weather has adversely affected the onion crop leading to a decline in onion exports: during the first half (April-September) of the 2015-16 financial year export declined by 17.79% against the corresponding period last year. Scarcity of the crop and a higher Minimum Export Price (MEP) are blamed.
Sources in the National Agricultural Co-Operative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (Nafed) said the country exported 485,000 metric tonnes of onions during the first hal