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Onion traders go on strike to protest ban on exports, limits on stocks
Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi and Ranjana Sharma, Mu
The decision taken by the Union government to ban the export of onions, in wake of the skyrocketing prices of the commodity, has not gone well with the traders and farmers in Maharashtra’s onion hub Nashik, as several of the key onion producing villages including Lasalgaon, Asia’s largest onion wholesale market, witnessing strike as a mark of protest.