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Onion export
Onion export ban lifted
Issue Date: Sep 21, 2011
The Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, has decided to lift the ban on onion exports. Onions can be now exported subject to a minimum export price (MEP) of US $ 475 per tonne.
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Onion growers blockade highway; demand revoking export ban
Issue Date: Sep 13, 2011
The Union government's decision to ban onion export has not gone down well with farmers. Protests continued in Nashik district of Maharashtra, one of the largest onion growing regions in the country, while farmers blocked the National highway from Mumbai to Agra. The Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) has, meanwhile suspended onion trading for an indefinite period.
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