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while india's growth story is strong, but inflation has been a sticking point, and on friday last week, the central bank also did not change the key interest rate, kept it on the higher side, showing its concern on the rising food prices. so that is something the government keenly wants to contain, and after the export curbs were announced last friday, the wholesale prices of onions did see some crashing down but this certainly has not left the exporters very happy. onions are so important to indian cooking aren't they? we saw the response from the farmers, who blocked that highway, ...

will be key, but export curbs on onions is not the first one. we have seen the government take this road for rice and wheat earlier this year, and prices did come down in the domestic market after the export curbs were announced in the same happened with onions. wholesale market prices have actually been seen coming down, so that is really in the focus because despite the growth story that india portrays where we have seen multiple people updating their growth numbers in the coming months, inflation is still a sticky point and it was the reason why the central bank last friday kept t...

The Centre has lifted its ban on onion exports but not freed them. Farmers need the relief of policy stability on this front.

Onion Export Ban: "The export policy of onions is amended from prohibited to free subject to MEP of USD 550 per metric ton with immediate effect and until further orders," the directorate general of foreign trade (DGFT) said in a notification.

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Saturday issued a notification permitting the export of onions with the Minimum Export Price (MEP) to $550 per tonne and 40% export duty. A ban on export was hurting the onion farmers in the Western Maharashtra and Marathwada, the area known as the onion belt of the country. These two regions alone produce 40% of the overall onion production of the country.