World’s biggest exporter lifts ban on onion exports
- 04-May-2024
India has lifted restrictions on the export of onions, according to an official notification on Saturday, a day after the government announced a 40% export duty. The export ban was imposed by the world’s biggest exporter of the vegetable last December and then extended in March. The policy changes comes in the middle of staggered […]
India’s ban on export of onions drives up prices
- 20-Dec-2023
MUMBAI/DHAKA/KATHMANDU: India’s ban on the export of onions has driven up prices of the vegetable for Asian buyers, who are scrambling for cheaper alternatives, particularly as New Delhi is unlikely to lift the curbs before general elections next year. The world’s biggest exporter of onions banned shipments on Dec. 8 after domestic prices more than […]
India imposes 40% export duty on onions
- 19-Aug-2023
India will impose with immediate effect a 40% export duty on onions up to Dec. 31 in an attempt to improve domestic availability of the vegetable, the ministry of finance said in a notification on Saturday. India’s annual retail inflation (INCPIY=ECI) rose sharply to a 15-month high of 7.44% in July from 4.87% the previous […]
Imported onions, tomatoes consignments reach Karachi market
- 03-Sep-2022
KARACHI: The consignments of onions and tomatoes imported from Iran and Afghanistan have started to reaching at the vegetable market here, ARY News reported on Saturday. Over 50 trailers of tomatoes and 70 trailers of imported onions have reached Karachi vegetable market, which has helped to bring the onions price down by 100 rupees and […]
India lifts ban on onion exports
- 28-Dec-2020
Exports of all varieties of onion will be allowed, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a notification
India bans onion exports
- 14-Sep-2020
The export of all varieties of onion was prohibited with the immediate effect, the government said
Onions change poor farmer’s fate, makes him millionaire
- 16-Dec-2019
The farmer initially owned 10 acres of land and now from the millions of rupees, he had earned, the farmer purchased another 10 acres of land and also hired 50 labourers to work at his harvest.
India may extend onion export ban to cap domestic prices
- 19-Nov-2019
“China or Egypt cannot replace the entire Indian supplies. Asian buyers are waiting for Indian supplies,” said a Mumbai-based exporter
Bangladesh flies in onion supplies as price hits record high
- 18-Nov-2019
Bangladesh's largest opposition party has called for nationwide protests on Monday over the record prices, which they blame on the government.
India bans onion exports; Now Asian countries have eye-watering prices
- 02-Oct-2019
India, the world’s biggest seller of the Asian diet staple, has banned exports after extended Monsoon downpours delayed harvests and supplies shrivelled