In India, onions — so important to the cuisine all around the country and across South Asia — are central to foreign policy and domestic harmony alike. Not only did his administration ban onion exports, it is also cracking down on onion hoarding. But to many people here in India, issues like the price of onions matter most. They blame the onion price inflation on the weather. “The farmer never gets a fair deal,” said Krishna Hiraman Rawat, a third-generation farmer in central India’s onion belt.

Source: bd News24 October 02, 2019 07:57 UTC