{"id":8382,"date":"2020-03-01T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T10:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2020-03-01T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T10:46:34","slug":"centre-decides-to-lift-ban-on-onion-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/centre-decides-to-lift-ban-on-onion-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre decides to lift ban on onion exports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The government on decided to lift the nearly six-month-old\nban on export of onions in a bid to protect the interests of farmers as prices\nare likely to fall sharply due to bumper rabi crop. Since the price of onion\nhas stabilised and there is bumper onion crop, government has decided to lift\nban on export of onions. Expected monthly harvest in March is over 40 lakh MT\ncompared to 28.4 lakh MT last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The GoM also deliberated on whether to reduce or scrap the\nMinimum Export Price (MEP) on onion to facilitate outbound shipments. In\nSeptember 2019, the government banned onion exports and also imposed a MEP of\n$850 per tonne. The move came after prices had started skyrocketing due to\nsupply-demand mismatch. In March alone, onion arrivals are expected to be as as\nhigh as 40.68 lakh tonne (Metric Tonne) when compared with 28.44 lakh tonne in\nthe year-ago period, as per the sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government on decided to lift the nearly six-month-old ban on export of onions in a bid to protect the interests of farmers as prices are likely to fall sharply due to bumper rabi crop. Since the price of onion has stabilised and there is bumper onion crop, government has decided to lift ban on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}