date:Apr 21, 2014
The average wholesale onion prices at the country's largest wholesale onion market, the Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC), have increased by 39.44% in just a week due to poor supply of the crop caused by the recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms in the district.
In the district APMCs, the average wholesale onion prices, which were in the range of Rs 575 to Rs 801 a quintal on April 10, rose to Rs 750-Rs 1,011 on Thursday within a week. In the retail market, good quality oni