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PANAJI
Onion prices continued to be the cause of pain for Goans but a section of consumers did get some relief on Monday after State-owned Goa State Horticulture Corporation (GSHC) intervened and began selling the staple at a subsidised Rs 90 per kilo.
The GSHC vegetable counters across the State sold onions from Monday but a two-kilos-per-person rationing was introduced.
At Rs 90 per kilo, the prices of onion at these GSHC outlets were a whopping 40-plus per-cent cheaper than the open markets.
Following multiple interventions at the wholesale ‘mandis’ across the country, onion prices did ease a bit but they continued to hover in the region of Rs 150-160 per kilogram over the last couple of days.
The Corporation headed by Mayem MLA, Praveen Zantye, is said to have sourced some 25 tonnes of onion from one of the country’s biggest wholesale market in Nashik to feed stocks into its over 100 outlets across the State. During the onion price crisis lingering for weeks now, prices had topped the Rs 170 per kilogram mark in Goa’s retail markets.
Meanwhile, the ‘Sahakari Bandhar’ outlets operated by the Goa State Co-operative Marketing and Supply Federation Ltd sold onions on Monday at Rs 108 per kilogram. However, almost every outlet of the Federation in the State ran out of stocks by early evening.
