With the mandis in Nasik district of Maharashtra remaining closed for a week, the government is aiming to scale up sales of onion from its buffer stock by National Cooperative Consumers Federation (NCCF) and farmers’ cooperative Nafed via national digital platform electronic-national agriculture market (e-NAM).

In the last couple of weeks, NCCF has sold 9637 tonne of onion on e-NAM platform from its stock from Lasalgaon, Nasik to buyers in several states – Punjab, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal using the online trading platform. On Tuesday the federation sold a record 1300 tonne of onions on the platform.

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