In the wake of skyrocketing prices of onion in India, Punjab traders have been importing onion from Afghanistan via Attari-Wagah land route.
Daily 3-5 trucks laden with onion are crossing over to India, traders said. "There is not much onion crop available in Afghanistan. Therefore the arrivals into India are as low as 60-80 tonne per day," Amritsar-based vegetable trader Anil Mehra told on Friday.
Traders further pointed out that the quality of imported onion was inferior and as a result of which it did not find acceptability among consumers.
"The onion imported from Afghanistan is of very poor quality. People did not like it. However, it is being purchased by hotel and restaurant owners," he added.
Traders further said though wholesale price of onion went down by Rs 5-7 per kg, yet there was no impact on retail price which are hovering around Rs 70-80 per kg.
Major part of imported onion from Afghanistan is being consumed in Punjab itself, traders said. Earlier, Amritsar based traders had tried to import onion from neighbouring country Pakistan.
They had even asked their counterparts in Pakistan to seek permission for onion export to India through Attari-Wagah land route in a bid to enhance bulb's supply but Pakistan refused to supply onion to India, traders said.
India imported onions from Pakistan in the month of January in 2011 when the country faced massive shortage of supply.
Delhi govt team in Maharashtra to buy onions
Meanwhile, Delhi government team has reached Maharashtra to purchase onions from the Nashik market in a bid to lower prices of the kitchen staple which has surged to as much as Rs 90-100 in the national capital region.
"I had a telephonic talk with (Delhi chief minister) Sheila Dikshit about availability to onions in Maharashtra following which a team of Delhi government officials arrived in the state yesterday (Thursday)," Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan told reporters here on Friday.
He added that "they will be purchasing onions from Nashik (Lasalgaon market) as per their requirements."
Lasalgaon in Nashik, about 200km from here, is the country's largest onion market.
"There is no hoarding of onions by traders in Maharashtra. We had a reduced production of the commodity because of unseasonal rains but the situation will improve by November 1 when the new crop starts arriving in the market."
Chavan said because of the facilities provided by the government, the farmers were in a position to ensure a better shelf life for the perishable crop which they earlier used to dispose in a panic sale, flooding the markets.
The chief minister said his Government was ready to help out the Delhi administration and make them available necessary quantity of onions for purchases.
"I have suggested to Dikshit to directly involve the government machinery to make the purchases. After accounting for the transport cost, the Delhi administration may be able to sell onions to people at a price of Rs 50/55 per kg (rate is hovering around Rs 100 a kg in Delhi retail market)."
"If a truck carrying onions travels non-stop from here to Delhi, it will take only 24 hours to land the consignment in the national capital," said Chavan, who spoke to reporters on the sidelines of a function.
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