 "TEMPORARY LULL A labourer sleeps on sacks of onions while waiting for customers at a wholesale market in Mumbai last week. Fears of the positive impact of the record kharif harvest turning negative are overstated. Courtesy: Reuters")
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh, especially from the western part of the state, have switched over to garlic after onion prices crashed last year to Rs 1 per kg. While there were some incidences of stocks of onions being dumped on the roads, the sowing area for garlic has gone up to 1.28 lakh hectare from 1.13 lakh hectare from the previous year.
"Onions fetched no price last year. Farmers had to lose even their input cost with no yield in onion crop,” said Amrit Patidar, a farmer in Ratlam.
Madhya Pradesh produces 30 per cent of garlic produced in the
