date:Jan 13, 2014
Following a sharp spike in retail onion prices towards the end of 2013, a large number of farmers in Gujarat are moving towards the crop this year onion sowing in the state has increased 417 per cent compared with the same period last year.
As on Monday, the rabi onion had been sown on 72,500 hectares, compared with 14,000 hectares during the corresponding period last rabi season. Onions are cultivated in both kharif and rabi seasons.
R S Gupta, director of Nashik-based National Horticulture