Onion Crisis: Lots of solutions in hand but implementation is critical

When it comes to onions and the crisis it faces, the government is not short of well-intended suggestions, advices and reasons. But it's time it started acting on some of them

On Wednesday, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan expressed his helplessness in controlling the prices of onion, citing a demand-supply mismatch. This helplessness has given voice to an issue that successive governments -- both at the Centre and in states -- have grappled with.

Numerous suggestions and reports have been made on how to tackle recurring crises and equal have been the times when such reports have been ignored and just forgotten as prices stabilise.

The current onion crisis, triggered by an almost 30 per cent drop in kharif onion acreage in Maharashtra and Karnataka, two major onion-growing states, will also