Farmer earns ₹1 from selling a tonne of onions
A farmer from Maharashtra has claimed that due to the steep fall in onion prices, he could earn only about ₹1 from the sale of nearly a tonne of onions at ₹1.60/kg. The total was sold for ₹1,523.4, which after transport (₹1,320), middleman (₹91.35), labour expenses (₹77.55) and other miscellaneous expenses (₹33.30), left him with ₹1.30 as profit, he claimed.