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The authorities has raised the bulb procurement terms nether its buffer banal programme to ₹16.50 per kg with effect from Saturday (June 13, 2026), from ₹15.80 per kg currently, arsenic portion of its efforts to boost farmers' income.
Farmers successful Maharashtra are seeking a procurement complaint of ₹30 per kg successful presumption of precocious input costs successful the State, the country's largest onion-producing region.
The buffer stocks are maintained annually nether the Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) for marketplace involution purposes. The authorities has acceptable a procurement people of 2 lakh tonnes for the year, down from 3 lakh tonnes procured successful 2025-26.
Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi chaired a gathering connected Thursday (June 12) with officials from the Department of Consumer Affairs to fortify bulb procurement and guarantee amended returns for our farmers.
"Based connected prevailing mandi prices and prime requirements for storage-grade onions, the Minimum Assured Procurement Price [MAPP] has been revised to ₹1,650 per quintal with effect from 13 June 2026," the Minister said successful a societal media station connected Friday.)(June 12)
The pricing methodology has besides been refined to marque procurement much responsive to marketplace conditions, helium added. The Centre had earlier revised the terms to ₹15.80 per kg from ₹12.70 per kg, citing marketplace dynamics and the request to support farmers.
Onion procurement for the existent play commenced connected May 15. Onion output is estimated astatine 307.37 lakh tonnes successful 2025-26 arsenic compared to 307.67 lakh tonnes successful 2024-25, arsenic per the latest authorities data.
Earlier this week, farmers successful Maharashtra demanded a minimum procurement terms of ₹3,000 per quintal (₹30 per kg).
They claimed the procurement complaint of astir ₹1,580 per quintal offered by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumer's Federation of India (NCCF) was little than prevailing marketplace expectations and inadequate to screen cultivation costs.
"Norms person been relaxed, but farmers are inactive incurring losses. The existent question is erstwhile bulb prices volition increase," Maharashtra State Onion Growers Association's Nashik territory president Jaydeep Bhadane had said connected Sunday (June 14).
