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As onion touches ₹62 per kg, government blames middlemen for price rise

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As onion touches ₹62 per kg, government blames middlemen for price rise

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Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Updated - August 28, 2026 02:06 am IST - New Delhi Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the government had intervened and bought onions from farmers in Maharashtra when the prices crashed. | Photo Credit: PTI The Union government on Thursday (August 27, 2026) blamed “black marketing, hoarding and profiteering” for the increasing price of onions across the country and said the essential vegetable will be made available for retail sale at a discounted price of ₹35 per kg through designated mobile vans in cities such as Delhi. On Thursday (August 27), the price for a kg of onion in the Delhi market was ₹62. Also read | Centre hikes onion procurement price by 13% The Consumer Affairs Ministry said the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (Nafed), and the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited (NCCF) will sell the onions through its retail stores and the Kendriya Bhandars under the price stabilisation measures. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said middlemen are the reason for the increase in onion prices and the farmers should get a reasonable income while the consumers should get the product at a reasonable rate. Farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to Mr. Chouhan that onion farmers were getting a price as low as ₹1 per kg of onion and had demanded immediate government intervention. “This was the same case with potatoes too. The government should have asked Nafed and NCCF to procure onions from farmers at a rate of at least ₹10 per kg.

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Farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to Mr. Chouhan that onion farmers were getting a price as low as ₹1 per kg of onion and had demanded immediate government intervention

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