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Hyderabad, Oct 18 (Maxim News): Onion farmers are now watching their hard-earned crop rot in fields following a big price drop. The fresh harvest has not many takers and the farmers who are desperate to dispose are ending up fetching rock-bottom prices of Rs.600 to Rs.800 per quintal in the open mandis. But much in contrast, the retailers still continue to sell the same onions at Rs.20-25 per kg to consumers.

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The producers who invested huge amounts on the crop are left with nothing but mounting debts. The crisis is almost the same nationwide and Telangana‘s smallholders are no exception. Encouraged by last year’s high prices fetching above Rs 4,000 per quintal, farmers switched to onion crop in different districts. But a b

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