Issuing a notification, the Union Finance Ministry ordered the imposition of a 40 per cent export obligation on onions until December 31, 2023. (File picture/News18)
State Agriculture Minister Dhananjay Munde mentioned he would communicate with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday and attempt to discover some ”amicable” resolution to the difficulty
Farmers in at the least three districts in Maharashtra on Sunday protested at APMCs in opposition to the Centre’s choice to impose a 40 per cent obligation on the export of the kitchen staple.
Amid protests, state Agriculture Minister Dhananjay Munde mentioned he would communicate with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday and attempt to discover some ”amicable” resolution to the difficulty.
A day after the Central authorities imposed a 40 per cent obligation on the export of onions until December 31, 2023, wholesale markets at Satana, Malegaon and Lasalgaon (In Nashik district), in Ahmednagar, and at Manchar and Khed in Pune district noticed protests by farmers.
Munde’s cupboard colleague Chhagan Bhujbal mentioned he would increase the onion export obligation challenge with the state deputy chief minister and BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis.
”I’ll request him to debate this with officers in Delhi. We will attempt to take steps to seek out an amicable resolution,” Bhujbal informed reporters.
A Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna (SSS) chief mentioned protests shall be held in wholesale markets throughout Maharashtra to mount strain on the Union authorities.
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole alleged that the BJP-Shiv Sena authorities is pro-industrialists and pro-businessmen.
”The state authorities is making an attempt laborious to maintain the costs of onions low and it doesn’t care concerning the pursuits of farmers. We condemn this choice (to impose the export obligation on onions) of the Union authorities,” he mentioned.
Earlier within the day, onion growers in Rahuri tehsil of Ahmednagar district halted the continuing public sale of the bulb within the wholesale market.
“The Union government’s anti-farmer stand has again come to the fore. Farmers in Maharashtra were expecting good returns from onion exports, but the imposed duty has ensured that there will not be any export. The prices in the domestic market will crash and farmers will incur losses,” mentioned SSS state president Sandeep Jagtap.
Several components of Maharashtra have obtained inadequate rainfall and it will delay the arrival of contemporary onions out there, he mentioned, accusing the federal government of defending the pursuits of customers and ignoring farmers.
“The Centre should also pay attention to our woes because the export duty has sent a message to traders that all the available onion is going to be sold in domestic markets only. Traders have now started quoting lower prices for our produce,” a farmer protesting in Rahuri mentioned.
According to sources at Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee, the most important wholesale onion market in India, there was an increase of practically 45 per cent within the costs of the kitchen staple final week.
“Onion was being sold at Rs 1,500 per quintal two weeks ago, and it jumped to Rs 2,200 in just one week. Now, the rates have started coming down, as exports have become nearly impossible,” a dealer from Lasalgaon APMC mentioned.
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