India Faces Onion Shortage Despite Record Harvest
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India has produced a record harvest but many farmers in the Unseasonal weather,
Supply deficiencies make the government's task of battling weak growth and inflation even tougher. It also highlights the irony of high food costs in India, which is the world's biggest fruit and vegetable producer after China.
Finance Minister
"The only solution is imports, but that can't be done overnight," said RP Gupta, director at the National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation.
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Prices are unlikely to come down before December. Sowing of the new season crop has been delayed due to the scorching heat and less rainfall, blunting the affect of measures taken by the government to get supplies to market and keeping prices in check.
The consumption of onions in the country is 15 million tonnes a year.
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