Onion auction in Nashik halted for 10 days, disrupting supply across the country

Mumbai: Various APMCs in Nashik district, known as the largest onion producing region of Asia. Onion supply in the entire country has been badly affected due to stoppage of onion production in the markets for the last eight-ten days. APMC The market has suffered a loss of about Rs 100 crore.

Initially, at the end of March, holiday and then hamal and measurement workers started strike strike demanding levy and labor in all APMCs including Nashik, Lasalgaon and Manmad. (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) The work of auctioning onion in the mandis has stopped.

Every day 6 thousand tonnes of onion is sent from Nashik district to different states of the country. But the work of sending out the quantity of onion has been disrupted for ten days.

Traders have stopped participating in the auction. Traders say that it is not fair not to deduct 11 percent of onion weight and labor charges from the amount paid to farmers who sell onions and deposit them in Mathadi ward. A deadlock has arisen in this matter. Apart from this, there is also a clash between onion traders and Nashik District Mathadi Workers Union on the issue of levy. Mathadi Sangh has demanded that 34 percent of the amount collected from farmers by traders should be given to the Sangh as levy.

Action will be taken against traders

Nashik Collector Jalaj Sharma said that two days ago I had held a meeting with onion traders in which I had appealed to them to abandon the old method of deducting the amount of labor charges and levies from the money paid to the farmers. Continue like and start over. auction. If the traders do not start the auction, I will inform the marketing department to take lenient action against them.