{"id":5215,"date":"2020-09-15T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:35:16","slug":"india-bans-onion-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/09\/15\/india-bans-onion-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"India bans onion exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MUMBAI: India on Monday prohibited exports of onion, the government said in a notification, as prices trebled in a month after excessive rainfall hit crops in southern states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The export of all varieties of onion was prohibited with the immediate effect, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>India is the world\u2019s biggest exporter of onions, a staple of South Asian cooking. Countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia and Sri Lanka rely on Indian shipments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-inline bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-312359-1667727571\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-custom_code \" data-adid=\"312359\" data-type=\"custom_code\"><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"rmpPlayer\"><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wholesale prices in India\u2019s largest onion trading hub, Lasalgaon in the western state of Maharashtra, have nearly trebled in a month to 30,000 rupees ($408.52) per tonne.<\/p>\n<p>Excessive rainfall in India\u2019s southern states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh has damaged summer-sown crop and delayed harvesting in other states, said Ajit Shah, president of the Mumbai-based Onion Exporters\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: India on Monday prohibited exports of onion, the government said in a notification, as prices trebled in a month after excessive rainfall hit crops in southern states. The export of all varieties of onion was prohibited with the immediate effect, the government said. India is the world\u2019s biggest exporter of onions, a staple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}