Nafed to procure 1 lakh tonnes of onions

National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (Nafed), which has been questioned to procure 1 lakh tonnes of onions by the Centre, has presently commenced procurement in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in a transfer to stabilise onion selling prices, a launch claimed on Sunday.

It has presently procured 25,000 tonnes of the bulb via farmer producer organisations, cooperative societies as properly as via direct invest in centres.

Presently, the onion selling prices for fair common excellent is ranging from ₹1,000-1,400 a quintal, relying on the place. The retail selling prices in important cities are ruling in the range of ₹20-thirty a kg.

The Nafed procurement will have the dual advantage of stabilising domestic selling prices of onion as properly as developing a buffer stock of 1 lakh tonnes which can be used throughout the lean generation months. Likewise, the federation has presently questioned the Condition governments to tell it in progress how considerably amount of the bulbs they would involve throughout the lean period — which falls involving August and November.

“This will aid timely evacuation of the saved onion in a planned method to have a salutary impact on the retail selling prices, which tend to go up in the period late August to November. Even more, this will support in reducing the storage losses,as lengthy duration of storage entails bigger storage loss to the extent of 35 for each cent, which will get compounded because of to adverse climate conditions, as reported final yr,” the Nafed statement claimed.

According to a best Nafed formal, the federation strategies to purchase seventy five,000 tonnes of the kitchen staple from farmers in Maharashtra, which is a important onion-growing Condition

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To aid bigger procurement, Nafed additional an more storage capacity of thirty,000 tonnes in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. It presently has a storage house of seventy five,000 tonnes — each very own and employed.

According to the formal, the federation has been developing a lot more storage house on cluster design at farm gate in the onion-growing locations considering that 2018. This has assisted Nafed to improve its procurement focus on, offering the industry assist to the onion growers.

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